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...assistant city manager, said last night the vote to table the bill is probably tantamount to a veto because a new state law limits to 90 days the time in which a bill can be enacted after its introduction in the city council. The bill, also known as the Reisman petition, will become void if the council does not pass it at its next meeting on June...
Commenting on last night's vote to table the Reisman petition, as well as what appeared to be deferential treatment paid Harvard when the council passed the earlier, selective moratorium bill, Graham said after the meeting, "I guess some of the councilors have some special feeling of connection to Harvard, and don't want to restrict its building plans...
...need to revel in their distinctiveness from other cultures--by banding together around unique cultural symbols--and their individualistic desire to strike out and forge independent identities. Patterson thus makes the daring intellectual move of taking on all the various and sundry historical forms of what David Reisman once called "groupism" as targets of his assault on ethnicity. Beginning with this premise, he goes on to sum up and criticize with remarkable incisiveness the broad range of forms that this pull toward group identification has taken in different societies and historical periods...
...here is a new element emerging in the current protests, however, Reisman said. Now, students protest about "entitlements"--things to which they believe they are entitled--in addition to things like women's studies and investment policies...
This latter feeling, Reisman said, "is part of a more general American adversarial, litigious spirit," a feeling that "they are doing this to me and I'm going to push back...