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Rosenberg said that the findings of a three-year study at the Slone center were consistent with Stampfer's work. "Our preliminary results are very similar to what Dr. Stampfer will publish tommorrow," she said yesterday...
...connections between Bush and Nixon are as much ideological as personal. Vice President Bush stressed throughout his campaign that America was separated by a "Great Divide." His cries for a mainstream mandate are in many ways similar to Nixon's own faith in a silent majority. Nixon won on a "law-and-order" platform, and George Bush did the same. The Willie Horton case, brought to you courtesy of Roger Ailes, did matter. Fully three times as many Americans said they voted based on fears of crime than anxiety over relations between the superpowers...
Finally, Proposition 3 would create a fund for housing subsidies from two-thirds of the increase in tax revenue that the condominium conversions would produce. Rent-controlled apartments are assessed well below similar structures with the legal status of condominiums...
...policies. Lest we be blinded by its deceptive statistics or silenced by its inadequate proposals, we must clearly communicate to the administration our commitment to a politics of inclusion that will enrich the University environment for all students. And we must demand that the administration make a similar commitment to effectively recruit minority scholars. Otherwise the deception that has excluded minorities from faculty and administration positions at Harvard will continue beneath the veneer of affirmative action. A. Stephen Barr '89 William J. Seymour Society
...Asian-Americans are encountering close-minded, stereotypical depictions similar to those long directed at Blacks. Evidence of racial antipathy toward Asian-Americans abounds in movies and television--where they are usually portrayed as samurais, Charlie Chans, dry cleaners, waiters, sages. They are seen as docile, servile, inarticulate and "inscrutable," or as barbaric, paganistic and violent...