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...weeks ago, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to British Physicist Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs that he helped found to rid the world of atomic arms. Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry, Emeritus, Paul Doty, will get to share in that prize...
...realize Israel's necessity in dealing with Yasser--all those pestering Palestinians on its border. Of course they can't just get rid of them, so let them have their own little state. Guise your gestures in robes of national autonomy. Rabin gets to look so magnanimous shaking Arafat's hand. And what photos with the White House in the background and at the Nobel Prize ceremony. The world is applauding. How can Giuliani even contest Yasser's preeminence...
Winnie Mandela's playing hard to get rid of. In papers filed in court, she claims her marriage to Nelson Mandela could be saved by traditional African reconciliation procedures, which involve meetings with their extended families. But as Mr. Mandela doesn't seem to want a rapprochement, she seeks half his assets...
Overt institutional racism, the conservative right's natural reaction to the Civil Rights movement (seen in their effort to get rid of affirmative action programs), cannot be destroyed, despite our best efforts. Overt institutional oppression no longer exists; covert institutional oppression does, but it is hard to see, and thus more difficult to legislate against...
...will never get rid of racism in politically marginal groups, such as Neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and skinheads, or the Nation of Islam and the Black Student Association for that matter. Such groups will always see America as a mosaic in which one color matters more than all the rest, instead of a solid unified sculpture. The Civil Rights movement has achieved a lot, but groups such as these hold it back from realizing its true potential...