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Hartford's Democratic Mayor Carrie Saxon Perrywas swamped by independent Michael Peters. Miaminarrowed its mayoral field from three to twocandidates
...Being a professor of Afro-American Studies and being Black is not like being a professor of Ango-Saxon literature in the English department," Gates says...
...might also come as a surprise to know that students of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant descent are now underrepresented at Harvard. The only two groups that are over represented--and they happen to be extremely overrepresented--are Jewish and Asian students, who comprise about one-fourth and one fifth of the class of 1996, respectively...
...true that Vance and Owen appear hopelessly overmatched trying to bring Anglo-Saxon-style conciliation to a place ravaged by byzantine blood feuds. It is no surprise that the Geneva talks have collapsed. Mere mediators cannot force an agreement. Which is precisely why Western governments should be providing the muscle behind the mediation. They should be putting the heaviest pressure -- including threats of intervention -- on Serbs and Muslims to accept the Vance plan. (The Croats have already done...
...larger point is that Jack takes his white, Anglo-Saxon status for / granted, while his late friend was self-conscious about his position. "Ben liked to joke that he was his own invention and therefore never could be certain how he really felt about anything or anybody," Jack confides, along with his supply of juicy details about Ben's business and sleeping arrangements...