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THIS defense seems credible when you consider that some of these announcers are responsible for breaking down the explicit racial barriers in sports (As CBS' Billy Packer says, "I was the first guy ever to recruit a black guy into the ACC."). But the stereotypes are too overplayed to be coincidental. After studying the broadcasts of several pro football and college basketball games, Derrick Z. Jackson, a columnist for The Boston Globe, found that adjectives implying pure physical ability or the lack of mental control were used between six and nine times more by broadcasters when they were describing Black...
...months, members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party have plaintively referred to the problems besetting their organization as the "triple woes." The phrase refers to popular dissatisfaction over the Recruit stock-shares- for-influence scandal, a three-month-old 3% consumption tax, and a liberalization of agricultural imports that angers farmers, who traditionally support the L.D.P...
...tens of millions of dollars investigating the scenario in Bracy's confession -- and come up with nothing. The Government had been right to take the case seriously. Bracy had been sent home from Moscow after reporting that he had become entangled with a Soviet woman who was trying to recruit him as a KGB spy. Perhaps things had gone further than anyone suspected. A number of people involved in the investigation are still tormented by Bracy's 1987 confession: No one, they say, would admit to espionage if he was not guilty...
...fact, the highest-chosen Harvard player in the 12-round selection process has never worn a Crimson uniform. Ted Drury, the highly-touted recruit out of Fairfield Prep, was taken late in the second round by the Calgary Flames. Drury's second-round selection makes him the highest-drafted player on this year's Crimson squad...
...year when the Harvard Affirmative Action Plan showed a significant gap between tenure and tenure-track women faculty members in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the available pool, and the Verba Report called for a stepped-up effort to recruit women scholars, Radcliffe appointed a president that believes that there is a small pool of qualified women scholars, and that this small pool is "a significant factor" in Harvard's low rate of tenure for women faculty...