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...HARVARD RIOT...
...Harvard students were fined $10 and $5, respectively, for their part in the riot. "Eight other Harvard men and two visitors from Yale also had their cases put on file," The Crimson reported...
SOMETIMES IT TAKES a riot to make America think long and hard about itself. Sometimes it takes a flood...
Most conservatives think it's a mistake to use government dollars as a to measure of commitment in fighting race-based inequality. The fate of South Central Los Angeles is the latest example. Of the $770 million in government money that went there in the wake of the 1992 riots, $300 million paid for riot-related overtime for police and National Guard troops. Most of $280 million in private funds has been devoted to building 32 supermarkets that help local people who otherwise pay higher prices at small shops. But as for the jobs they create, not many families...
...form a separate Republic of African America. The arrangement would confirm a secession that has already occurred in millions of minds all over the country. The attitude is that it was a horrible marriage from the start and has long since dissolved in chronic dysfunction, occasional riot and permanent mutual contempt. Why keep the ugly, abusive charade going? (Was it some such domestic metaphor playing in the unconscious mind that made the Simpson case so fascinating...