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Thank you for the great article on Congressman Pepper. He won my 62-year-old heart when I saw him bristling with righteous indignation and forcing his way into that stacked meeting on aging at the White House...
...head of her Salvation Army. Sarah has the misfortune to be at stake in a bet between Nathan Detroit, who needs a quick $1000 to finance his crap game, and "Sky" Masterson, a rich gambler looking for action. Detroit has but Sky that he cannot get the righteous Sister Sarah to go with him to Havana...
...short, angry letters and righteous Crimson editorials are helpful but insufficient. Harvard must be persuaded to allow some form of student participation in faculty intention decisions. The College must commit itself to quality undergraduate education and not to academic one-upsmanship. Importantly, student, must not lost night of the real problem: we have no ability to defend our interests at Harvard-Radcliffe because we are excluded from the University's autocratic decision-making processes. Only with an adequate understanding of the problems we face can we begin to find solutions for them. Michael G. Colantuono...
...defy self-righteous students such as Cecil McNab to sit still and expouse "academic freedom" when a KKK member comes to deliver a speech at the Law School in which he calls Blacks "inferior" or in some way brings back the most pernicious racial slander perpetrated by pseudo-Darwinists at the beginning of this century. Mr. McNab's view represents, quite simply, the most blatant of double standards. Is his understanding of free speech that we must listen to such virulence as Rahman's in silence? Would he condemn the Falwell "hecklers" or those who protest at ACSR meetings...
Eight thousand miles away, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher herself standing on shifting political soil, drew Britannia's rustling sword from its scabbard and let a righteous charge in the name of self-determination that lifted her national prestige to a level from which it has yet to substantially descend...