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Harvard's slight of the Foundation appears to be the latest salvo in a two-year-old cold war between top University administrators and Foundation Director S. Allen Counter. Two falls ago, in a clear blow to Counter's authority, the University appointed Epps as its "race czar." What followed was a series of behind the scenes slaps, the most notable being Counter's assistance to leaders of the Asian American Association in drafting a letter to the editors of The Crimson that attacked Epps's handling of campus race issues...
...recent salvo of editorials in The Crimson and Independent regarding Canaday have been quite amusing, but Canaday is probably here to stay. While it may be rather ironic that Harvard forced the Cambridge Fire Department to "Georgify" their station by Memorial Hall and then promptly built Canaday next door, complaining about it isn't going to anyone much good...
...Cambridge Democratic Committee fired a salvo against long-term incumbency last night, and Sondra Scheir's 20-year stranglehold on a member's seat on the Cambridge Election Commission appeared to come...
...MEMBERS OF HONG KONG'S LEGISlative Council sat in silence, Governor Christopher Patten unleashed a sharp-tongued salvo against Beijing last week -- a measure of his frustration with the intransigent mainland government. Declaring that Britain and China had only "weeks rather than months" to map out something resembling a democratic future for the colony, Patten threatened to push ahead unilaterally with political reform, specifically his effort to broaden, however modestly, Hong Kong's electoral base, a program that has drawn Beijing's unrelenting ire. In urging the legislators to fight for reform, Patten asked, "If we are not prepared...
...spite of the arsenal which Brock has stockpiled, there is no single piece of ammunition sufficient to land a mortal blow. The Real Anita Hill is, however, a salvo in an ongoing cultural war. It lends a new aspect to the case, compelling the reader to take another look at the proceedings which, almost two years ago, rent American society along class, racial and gender lines...