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Second, Lewis fails to address our criticism of one of the most disturbing aspects of the athletic department's budget--the fact that he and his committee, who purport to "oversee" the department, do not have access to the budget numbers. Lewis says our references to "unaccounted-for cash" are "groundless." How would he know...
Director Richard Pearce and writer Janus Cercone purport to present an insider's view of con artistry, but their seen-it-all cynicism is a fraud too. By the end we're eye-high in butterflies, walking cripples and God's own rain shower. The greenest born-again Christian does not believe in climactic miracles as desperately as does a moviemaker looking for a way out of a troubled scenario. No wonder, then, that this Elmer Gantry wannabe winds up as a Field of Streams. And no miracle, either...
...felt an acute sense of rejection when I learned that AAA had deserted me and all those Asian students whose rights they purport to promote--the simple majority of us who will never, even with spike heels, make the 5'6" minimum; who spend hours at the mall looking for clothes that won't make us look like little girls playing dress-up in mom's clothes; who deal with jeans and slacks rolled up into jumbo doughnuts around our ankles; who scour "petite" departments for clothes that are vaguely fashionable and aren't designed for middle-aged country club...
Finally, the student center idea. This is perhaps the worst, at least from the viewpoint of the undergraduates you purport to care so much about. Take a short trip down Mass Ave. some day and peek into MIT's students center. Or think of Columbia's. Or even Georgetown's relatively new student center, completed a few years ago. All of these colleges lag behind Harvard in name recognition and prestige. They all have better facilities for undergraduate activities, however...
...Berlet counters that "if [Fulani and the NAP] are really who they say they are they'd get broad political support...instead, they're ostracized by people they purport to represent...