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...students demonstrated in opposition to Harvard's discriminatory policies and the government's compliance. The speakers at the rally well represented the broad spectrum of the TFAA's supporters, including the Harvard Employee Organizing Committee, Radcliffe Union of Students, February First Movement, supporters of progressive kitchen worker Sherman Holcombe, and a TFAA spokesperson. This rally called attention to a variety of grievances felt by many sectors of the University population. For example, active discrimination had been exposed in the Harvard kitchens by Sherman Holcombe (and was discussed at the rally by one of his supporters), where the University was following...

Author: By William Fletcher, | Title: The Spiders' Web: Affirmative Action and the Struggle for Democratic Rights at Harvard | 9/28/1976 | See Source »

...Sherman Holcombe is the former shop steward of the Radcliffe Dining Hall. His outspoken comments on University/employee relations have won him a reputation as a dauntless crusader for reforms and a thorn in the side of the Harvard administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: People... ...they're what we're all about. | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...latter two items emerged largely as a result of the dispute surrounding the suspension of Radcliffe dining hall shop steward Sherman Holcombe last February. Holcombe's suspension, later lifted by the University, raised serious questions concerning the fairness of the University's internal employee grievance process...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Agreement is Near on Pact For Harvard Kitchen Workers | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...training a battalion of mixed Lebanese Christian and Moslem troops in tank warfare at an Israeli base on the edge of the Sinai desert, at the opposite end of Israel from Lebanon. When the training is finished, they will be sent back to Lebanon with 38 American-made M50 Sherman tanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Israel Secretly Joins the War in Lebanon | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

...wasted effort. I do believe in progress, as the framers did. A lot of people think that because they can't have the millennium tomorrow, democracy isn't worth the effort. But that's not what human life has ever been about. Roger Sherman and the other patriots would not have been so obsessed with what was wrong or so blind to the accomplishments, as many people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Children of the Founders | 7/5/1976 | See Source »

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