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...indeed the Government's suspicions are justified. Money is an unlikely answer. He still earns $80,000 a year from the State Department, and his wife has additional income. Except for their $328,000 apartment, Bloch has modest tastes. He seems satisfied with his books, the theater, his stamp collection and a glass of good wine. Bloch resented serving under politically appointed ambassadors in Vienna, but his real complaint is with the State Department's failure to consider him for appointment as Ambassador to East Germany, and his later lack of success in becoming Deputy Ambassador to the Hague...
...President and the Government contained no provision against flag desecration. Still, Federalist judges sitting at the time would have been happy to imprison any Jeffersonian Republican who abused the flag. Among the Americans the Federalists did put behind bars was the author of a placard that urged NO STAMP ACT, NO SEDITION AND NO ALIEN ACTS. And newspapers sternly denounced as "seditious" a group that burned not the flag, but the Alien and Sedition Acts...
...idea of self-defense is supposed to be what America is based on. But when black people talk about self-defense, they're militant. When whites talk about it, they're freedom fighters." Why is black life less sacred than white life? he asks. Why do blacks need the "stamp of approval" of whites to feel affirmed? Why are his films lumped together as black, when each one examines a distinctly different aspect of the human condition? Looking for racism at every turn, he finds...
Although the Board traditionally has acted as a formal rubber-stamp for the Corporation--the body that takes care of Harvard's day-to-day operation--HRAAA has hoped to elect enough overseers to force a Board vote on the University's South Africa-related investment policy. With Tutu, there are now four HRAAA overseers, as well as several Alumni Association overseers who have said they favor divestment...
...Ronald Reagan's main goals as President was to put his conservative stamp on the federal judiciary. His success on that score was dazzling. Thanks to the large number of openings that occurred during his two terms in the White House, Reagan was able to appoint 346 federal judges -- more than any other President in American history. "It is one of his most enduring legacies, and one of his most significant," says William Bradford Reynolds, the controversial former Assistant Attorney General for civil rights in the Reagan Administration...