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...Harvard Heritage Society is writing to thank Scott M. Singer '98 for his constructive Saturday letter, "Heritage Society is Appalling" (letter, Sept. 30, 1995). Singer was angered by our Friday jubilee in Government 1091: Liberalism and Conservatism in American Politics, where we presented the David Duke Award in Faculty Excellence to Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield and the Heinrich Himmler Award in Social Vision to George F. Will...
...Singer wrote, "During the integration of Southern universities in the 1960's, protests may have raged outside the classroom, but inside the schoolhouses, students were at least able to obtain an education." We take Mr. Singer's criticism very earnestly because he offers constructive advice for how we might more closely follow the example of those heroic fighters for racial purity who protested integration outside their schools. We thank Mr. Singer for having enough faith in us to believe that we could, one day, live up to the time-honored standards of our white brethren fighting against racial contamination...
Moreover, we agree with Mr. Singer that we were in error in attempting to interrupt the sacred forum of a Harvard classroom. We offer our most humble apologies to the entire university, and even to the threatened heritage we are trying to uphold. Sometimes, in our zeal, we go too far. We hope our jubilant "disruption" did not tarnish the great honor we hoped to bestow upon the award recipients...
SENTENCED. NINA SIMONE, 62, singer; to a two-month suspended sentence and a $5,000 fine for causing and fleeing a 1993 auto accident that injured two young motorcyclists; in Aix-en-Provence, France...
...playwright and former opera singer, Quinn uses his love of stage and song to leaven the weekly mix of prime ministers and corporate titans with a sprinkling of actors, jazzmen and radio stars. "He lobbies hard for the most obscure people, then does them proud," says assistant editor Sidney Urquhart. "Sometimes we have to remind him that a head of state has passed away and we don't have room for that long-forgotten mimic...