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...campus newspaper, the Daily is by default the forum that sets the tone of acceptability. The boycotters understand that merely to comply with the Daily and offer their angry words in retort would never truly solve the problem at hand. What would have happened, as has happened many times in the past with newspapers across the nation, is that there would have been a “dialogue” and the same instances of blatant and subtle racism would continue. The students instead sought to take action through the boycott, hoping that this action would force the paper...
...without Harvard, some will retort combatively, Cambridge would be an utterly unremarkable suburb of Boston rather than the garden spot it is today. Overall, Harvard is an asset for the community, so let the University do what it will with its own land, they will...
...member of a peripherally isolated community that evolved into our oldest ancestors. You reported that several modern-looking hominids coexisted, and this also jibes with the introduction of members of an isolated community into the larger population. People derided the theory, calling it evolution by jerks. Gould's famous retort was that the alternative theory is evolution by creeps. DAVID J. MELVIN Chester...
...said, 'You can take your gittar and ram it up your ass.'" What an affront! Jerry Lee was, after all, the consummate keyboard man, with the best left hand in the business. Pumpin' that piano was his religion and his most consummate vice. But even commercially, his retort seemed to make commercial sense in 1956, when some of the best rockers were singer-pianists: Little Richard, Ray Charles and JLL's fellow Louisianans Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint and Huey "Piano" Smith. If '50s record producers thought they could make a mint with a white kid who sang like a black...
...those five airlines and undercut competitors, online and in the air. Last month Congress held what is expected to be the first of several hearings looking into Orbitz's behavior, and the departments of Transportation and Justice are officially examining the site for possible antitrust violations. Orbitz executives retort that their site has energized the online travel industry and point out that the DOT examined their business model last year and found no anticompetitive actions. Late last month Orbitz announced an IPO it hopes will raise $125 million...