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...staff editorial by The Harvard Crimson ("Justified, but Insensitive," Feb. 8) reminded me of this destructive editorializing act--reminding me that, as a gay man, I had better remember my assigned rank and file on the battlefield of newsprint because my social position was tenuous and dependent, and therefore subject to attack...
...most political of the six objectives calls for U.S. students to rank first, worldwide, in math and science. The "moonshot goal," as one White House wag dubbed it, is a rare admission by Bush that America is falling behind its foreign competitors, especially the Japanese. The evidence of failure is abundant. In a recent international survey, American 13-year-olds finished last in math and nearly last in science. Bush stiffened his proposal by requesting, in his 1991 budget, a $100 million increase in the education programs of the National Science Foundation and a $230 million grant to help states...
...accord departmental rank to women's studies, therefore, is inherently a challenge to the University's power centers. It does more than legitimate the fact that studying women is an important and worthwhile scholarly purpose; it would imply that the scholars--most of them women--who have done so much to challenge traditional academic assumptions should actually be allowed control over their own, new field of research...
...would always defend the Azerbaijanis. We tried to see that boys of Slavic extraction, from Russia, the Ukraine or Belorussia, served in Nagorno-Karabakh. Many former soldiers have taken sides, and some of them have served in Afghanistan. Not only enlisted men but also officers who once held the rank of lieutenant colonel are now fighting for the Armenians and Azerbaijanis. These veterans are as experienced as our soldiers...
...will remain so until apartheid is abolished. That may be the most telling impact of the sanctions. Today most whites are eager to end the pain and regain a place among civilized nations. Yet they are also angry and resentful, blaming Americans in particular for what they see as rank hypocrisy. Many insist that the U.S. has lost, not gained, leverage over South African policies...