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...article by Robin Freedberg in your issue of July 2, 1973, entitled "Federal Government Rejects University's Hiring Proposal," includes a number of errors. This article also includes a number of statements taken out of context which leave the impression of a change in the policy of the Office for Civil Rights...
...this point that the movie begins to weaken. As Ivan rises to brief status as renegade folk-hero, the film loses its credibility. Ivan is more a rip off artist than a Robin Hood, an improbable hero...
...Robin Schmidt, assistant for public affairs, directed the Harvard News Office to call The New York Times Magazine, to whom Kilson had submitted a revised and extended version of his Bulletin article, and inform its staff of the black students' objections. The black students had told Schmidt of their objections and he offered to put them in touch with The Times...
...works. The plot is a tangle of corruption, sex scandals, blackmail and professional and family loyalties. The Super Cops are Dave Greenberg and Bob Hantz, two real police heroes who patrolled a black Brooklyn ghetto with such derring-do that drug pushers and grateful residents dubbed them Batman and Robin. Also nonfiction, Serpico is about Frank Serpico, the patrolman whose charges of widespread corruption in the New York police department were eventually documented by the Knapp Commission...
...Foreign Devil re-enters the Forbidden City. After 72 years." In 1900, the year of the Boxer Rebellion, the foreign devils included everyone from Europe's great powers, the U.S. and Japan, all looking for their piece of the enormous fortune cookie. It is the Boxers, those Chinese Robin Hoods who thought their magic would protect them from Western bullets, who most excite Benson's imagination. By creating Norris Blake, a reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's old New York World, Benson can indulge his fascinations and own romantic yearnings...