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Harvard, most would agree, has not become a nightmarish "salad bar." But just because Harvard is not stricken by cross burnings or Bensonhurst-style murders does not mean that the University's unique brand of diversity is without flaw...
...smashed into the starboard side of the bridge and tore open the stomach of the skipper, Captain Mervyn Bennion. A medic patched up the dying man's wound, and a husky black mess steward, Doris Miller, who had once boxed as the ship's heavyweight champion, helped move the stricken captain to a sheltered spot...
...state's commercial Chinook salmon catch depends on the estuary, but more than half the salmon swimming up the Sacramento River to lay eggs are blocked by the Red Bluff Diversion Dam. Those that get by are often unable to spawn in overheated waters coming from drought-stricken Shasta Lake. The San Joaquin River is entirely diverted for irrigation as it emerges from the Sierra Nevada. When it resumes downstream near the Kesterson Reservoir, selenium-poisoned waters flow into it from the Westlands agricultural district...
Even when misfortune befalls others, it is the woman who seems to bear the burden. In ABC's Stranger in the Family, a teenager is stricken with amnesia after an auto accident. But the drama focuses on his mother (Teri Garr) and her efforts to recapture her "lost" son. In CBS's My Son Johnny, Rick Schroder plays a small-time hood who has brutalized his younger brother from childhood. Again, Mom (Michele Lee) is the star sufferer: she is forced to recognize that she has raised...
...AMERICAN HERO has been stricken with the AIDS virus. Twenty-four hours after having tested positive for the HIV-virus, Earvin "Magic" Johnson stepped forward and disclosed to the world that he was leaving professional basketball. It is difficult to overestimate the impact of Magic's unbelievably courageous announcement...