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PERHAPS a victorious referendum would have failed to modify our relationship with the United States. Maybe Puerto Ricans felt that constitutional weight was unnecessary to remind them of their culture and their sense of national identity. Yet the opportunity to send a message to Congress that their ties to the United States are not incompatible with pride for their culture and Hispanic-Caribbean origins was lost...
...Faculty Council pledged in May 1990. If Harvard and President Rudenstine are opposed to all forms of discrimination against groups protected by Harvard's official nondiscrimination policy, but can make an exception in the case of gay people, by all means, continue to brandish the anti-gay ROTC sword. Remind us gay folks of our second-class status. At least Harvard does not give us gay people a lesser diploma on graduation day, just a few deeply injurious scars. Chad S. Johnson '89 Leverett House Tutor for bisexual gay and lesbian issues Founder, Group United Against ROTC Discrimination
...Loves of Dobie Gillis, seem dated, and neither time nor camp tastes have improved Mister Ed. But even middling sitcoms like The Patty Duke Show are more effortlessly engaging than most of the nervous joke machines that pass for comedies today. Good ones like The Dick Van Dyke Show remind us that the trivial plot lines of old domestic comedies were often a mask for shrewd satire of suburban neuroses. The best ones, like I Love Lucy, which invented the vocabulary for the modern sitcom, have the formal perfection and infinite repeatability of great pop music...
Such investivations also serve to remind administrators of the power of the legislative branch...
...With that caveat in mind," Coles says, "I have to remind myself of the irony in life, that sometimes one can find arrogance among those who criticize others for being arrogant...