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...that might have led to the breakdown of the fledgling confederation, even to the reappearance of European forces eager to recapture their lost lands. Bells rang and cannons fired for the public celebration of July 4, when many of these same men had met in this same statehouse to proclaim the Declaration of Independence eleven years earlier. But the secret debates, Washington wrote to Hamilton, "are now, if possible, in a worse train than ever; you will find but little ground on which the hope of a good establishment can be formed...
...this area no lesson is too basic, as recent events proclaim loudly. Commemorating the 40 years since Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line, Los Angeles Dodgers Executive Al Campanis has remarked on how buoyant and fit for command blacks aren't, and he has been fired. Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth and Presidential Candidate Jesse Jackson have joined forces in the cause of affirmative action, and black Sociologist Harry Edwards has hired on as a consultant. Baseball is publicly standing up to racism. And, one year after George Foster was derided and expelled for bringing up the subject, the World...
While divestment remains the most pressing issue before the Overseers, this year's prodivestment candidates deserve credit for their progressive stances and apparent willingness to take action on a broad array of issues. That several of the 12 University-approved candidates used their election statements to proclaim positions on divestment and to comment on other substantial issues indicates a dissatisfaction with the unsubstantive campaigns of the past. Perhaps the time has ended when running Harvard was the exclusive affair of seven white men on the Corporation and those who thought precisely like them...
Africa has its blinding clarities and its shadows. The clarities proclaim something primal, the first days of life. The shadows lie at the other extreme of time: in the premonition of last days, of extinction. Now you see the animals. Soon, perhaps...
More remarkable than the outburst was the fact that after a few days of bewilderment, politicians and the press simply dropped the matter. To this day, the French parliament and public remain blithely in the dark about it. Imagine William Casey going on television to proclaim that the CIA was being dangerously subverted in the Iran arms deal -- and having the U.S. press and public let it go at that...