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Dealing with your first point. Professor Fried about Harvard students being present at all levels of government and defining that to be public service. I think there is a vast segment of society that is still without representation. I'm not saying that it's necessarily the fault of the law, the legal profession. But we cannot neglect the fact that of the many Harvard students that end up in government. I don't think we find a vast proportion beginning at the bottom rungs of government and working their way to the top I think they generally start...
...fried-chicken restaurant for $615, for which he was convicted and given a life sentence in October 1982 despite testimony from his colleagues that he was at work at the time; in Dallas. A publicity campaign contending that Geter was a victim of racism, and a 60 Minutes segment last December, had already pressured the Dallas county district attorney into granting a new trial, scheduled for April 9, when another suspect was implicated last week...
JUDGING FROM the leaflet distributed by the Harvard Republican Club over Junior Parents' Weekend, the conservatives have learned a lesson or two from their ideological counter-parts. Mixing polemics with a persecution complex, the traditionally complacent segment of the Harvard community has sought to project itself as the victimized minority in an intellectually stifling atmosphere. But this none-too-subtle turning of the tables is a feeble attempt to arouse support--both in letter and in spirit, the Republican Club leaflet is dead wrong...
...book's title is the small, hinged section on a ship's rudder that helps to steer the vessel. Willens, a real estate developer and onetime textile machinery manufacturer, contends that businessmen are America's trim tab. "Business is the most flexible and change-oriented segment of our society," he writes, and "possesses inordinate power to influence the direction of our national enterprise...
Malcolm X trumpeted the need for radical change and a reexamination of a system which distributes a poorer way of life to one segment of the population while another lives in relative comfort. At the same time he managed to convey a new sense of worth to Afro-Americans and a sense of worth of unity for all people of color...