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INITS newly instituted and seldom seen newsletter, council members boast as among their major accomplishments: providing bus transportation to the Yale game (an annual tradition), sponsoring a forum on minority and women faculty hiring (mostly the work of non-council member Lucy H. Koh '90) and sponsoring a concert by an unknown group called the Bermuda Strollers (actually a promotional stunt for a spring break tour company). These are student services...
Bush may also be more willing than ever to veto legislation. That power is essentially negative: it can stymie the Democrats, but it can seldom accomplish anything positive. Similarly, the Democrats, who lack a two-thirds majority in either house, cannot override Bush's veto without Republican support. Their strategy, according to one of their number, will be to send the President legislation on popular issues that bears a strong Democratic imprint, and dare him to veto it. Among the most divisive of those upcoming issues...
Fears of a diabolical conspiracy to exterminate blacks have been around for decades, but seldom have they been believed by so many people. The idea is catching on, though even the most wild-eyed conspiracy mongers concede they have no evidence to support their claims. When filmmaker Spike Lee appeared on ABC's Nightline, for example, Ted Koppel asked him to back up his charge that it is "no mistake that a majority of drugs in this country is being deposited in black and Hispanic and low-income neighborhoods." Lee could point only to a scene in the movie...
Many people have tried to put into words the anxiety and fear we all feel at this time of year, particularly those of us who are just now experiencing the humble realization of how little we really know, and how seldom we have ventured to class...
Except in rarefied intellectual circles, articles that appear in the Cambridge, Mass., journal Daedalus (circ. 14,000) seldom stir up much of a fuss. But a pseudonymous piece appearing in the quarterly's winter issue is kicking up a storm. Titled "To the Stalin Mausoleum," the pessimistic assessment of the Soviet Union's ability to transform itself both economically and politically is obviously modeled after George Kennan's famous 1947 Foreign Affairs essay, in which Kennan outlined the concept of containment of the Soviet Union. While Kennan wrote under the byline "X," the Daedalus author identified himself -- or herself -- only...