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...controversy over discrimination and the military has spurred at least one college campus to take creative steps to quell student protests...
...controversy over discrimination and the military has spurred at least one college campus to take creative steps to quell student protests...
...staff should not expect the administration to quell Harvard's driven student body. We should demand an official dean of students because Harvard's zeal deserves better student services: bringing more of the outside world to campus for career guidance, as well as entertainment purposes; having the power to initiate an increase in student group space and funding; instituting twilight library and dining hall hours; fostering more student-staff interaction. While the administration could do much more to make student life rewarding, the fact that Harvard students can't seem to find time for love is our own fault...
...perhaps not enough heart. Eleanor was the "eyes and ears" of her wheelchair-bound husband, his pipeline to African Americans, Jews and other disfranchised people. Her middle-aged, maternal image gave the New Deal its most compassionate face. In 1940, F.D.R. dispatched Eleanor to the Democratic Convention to quell a revolt against his choice of political outsider Henry Wallace as running mate. "This," she told the convention, "is no ordinary time," and the force of her presence ended the crisis...
...that it was important to play down any White House role in the deal for fear Republicans might reject it. "Right now, this is the Lott plan," said a senior Clinton aide. "He will eventually take pieces from everyone, but the whole game now is Lott." To help Lott quell his rebellion, the White House offered to make a tiny concession: Clinton lawyers will not dispute that the testimony taken by Starr is accurately reported--a move that might placate some G.O.P. Senators. But the President's team reserves the right to challenge the truth of that testimony as well...