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Figueroa is one of at least four former and current guards who say they have hired attorneys to seek action against Harvard because of alleged discrimination. Richard Spicer, a Waltham attorney who is representing Figueroa, said he would not comment on the case until later this week...
...notion that the job of ministers is to keep people happy and the pews filled. "A pastor has to shake things up," he says. "The point isn't to accommodate self-centeredness but to attack it. If you don't, then the Gospel becomes just one more commodity we seek to package...
Likewise, the staff somehow thinks that for Harvard to seek out Latino professors is "demeaning." A Latino professor at Harvard wouldn't be a token but a long-overdue pioneer. Was the first Black student to go to a white public school in the South a "token...
...they are imposing a high penalty on students who choose to learn in a securely and homogeneously Christian environment. While most of us might not choose to study in such a school, the very hostility of society to this option inspires those who wholeheartedly espouse the Christian perspective to seek schools where their beliefs will receive institutional support. Because of this principled choice, they are being denied admission to good universities...
...cases of arson and fire bombings against clinics from 1990 to 1992, only one suspect has been arrested. Earlier this month, representatives of the Feminist Majority Foundation met with Florida attorney general Robert Butterworth. Katherine Spillar, national coordinator for the foundation, says he refused their request to seek a state court injunction that would keep protesters away from clinics...