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...think it will be a shame if future generations of undergraduate women lose the Radcliffe part of Harvard-Radcliffe," she said...

Author: By Eugene Y. Chang, CRIMSON | Title: Restructuring Radcliffe | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...shame I feel at belonging to the same species as the men who thought up our little adventure is bad enough," my friend David Hollander '71, now a retired attorney and gay activist, wrote 25 years ago in The Crimson, "but to think that I actually enrolled in a school that trains such beasts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moving From One Set Of Promises to Another | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...person of Serbian heritage, I am grossly embarrassed by the unspeakable war crimes [WORLD, May 13] being inflicted upon Croat and Muslim Bosnian civilians by Serbian war criminals. How swiftly will justice be rendered against those responsible for the blanket of shame? They have humiliated their nation by the mass killings, rapes, lootings and razing of communities, actions designed to dispose of all non-Serbs. Shame on you, Serbia, from one who shares your heritage! JOHN MITOVICH Albuquerque, New Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 3, 1996 | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...have been telling you to show your passion. But after three years of sentiments and feelings from the White House, the whole country hungers for logic. (And in any case, every time your staff tried to make you show passion, you wound up pounding the lectern--"Have you no shame, Hollywood?" "Liberal judges!"--and looking not serious but fierce, dark, censorious.) You can demonstrate the quality of your thinking and temperament by spending the next six months speaking clearly to the American people--by trusting them with your thoughts. Which is not something you're used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEMO FROM THE DESK OF PEGGY NOONAN | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

...himself to speak English without an accent (and who spoke several other languages, though never Yiddish) left little trace. His daughter's book turns frantic, and to some extent loses direction, as it becomes clear that she is not going to find David Gordon at the precise point of shame and bitterness when the immigrant experience persuaded him to construct a disguise. There are two great losses here. A little girl loses her father's hand in a swirling crowd. And a boy loses his way as he tries to transform himself as that American ideal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: DAD REVISITED | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

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