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...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) Chief Francis D. “Bud” Riley, flanked by an entourage of uniformed officers and aides. In 1996, when Riley took control of HUPD after 25 years of service in the state police, the department was dogged by allegations of racism within its ranks. He weathered that storm, as well as crime waves that followed, including a series of armed robberies that struck campus in the fall of 1996. But he has won widespread respect for his sensitivity to student concerns and his firm commitment to fighting crime...
Josh Tyrangiel completely missed the mark in his article about [the hip-hop magazine] The Source and our investigation of racism in hip-hop music [Jan. 12]. Tyrangiel focused on an alleged personal vendetta between Eminem and me, but doing so obscures the real issues. It is The Source's journalistic responsibility to bring Eminem's multiple racist rants to light and publish excerpts of the song tracks. Our hope is not necessarily to topple a talented musician; it is to make Eminem accountable for his words and engage him and his fans in a real dialogue about racism...
...Buchanan was the last Republican.) Suddenly, as Dean ranted one evening about "Washington bureaucrats like George W. Bush and Tom DeLay who want to dictate to your local school boards," I realized that he reminded me of George Wallace--a liberal version, to be sure, and without the theatrical racism. But Wallace was about a lot more than racism. He was about the inanities of Washington, the "pointy-headed intellectuals who can't park their bicycles straight." He was a little guy too, with the same chestiness, the same rolled-up sleeves as Dean. He was congenitally pugnacious, a former...
...walls of neighborhood buildings attests to the strong resistance to the U.S. presence here. Spray-painted in Arabic and English, it reads, DOWN USA. LONG LIVE SADDAM. YES TO MARTYRDOM FOR THE SAKE OF IRAQ. "The majority of people seem all right," Whiteside says. "But it's like racism. Some people actually, truly hate us, and they're going to teach their kids the same thing...
DIED. ROBERT DEWITT, 87, an Episcopal bishop who upset the church hierarchy by taking part in the first ordination of women as priests in 1974; in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. In his six decades as a churchman, he campaigned against social inequity, racism and the Vietnam...