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...ignore the threatening racial nature of the Currier House incident. Williams shared a room with Jack Patterson, the student who placed the first call, stating, "Negro hit squad strikes again," and who subsequently had to withdraw for one year. Even though Williams did not specifically use the term "Negro" in his phone call, the two calls had the similar effect of inciting fear in the individual victim. We fail to see justification for the Ad Board's division of the three actions in terms of the racial implications involved. For the Ad Board to deemphasize even one part...
...really made the Cambridge school system the best urban system in the country," said Independent candidate Alfred B. Fantini, who is running for his fourth term...
...Supreme Court begins a new term this week a bit shorthanded. With the prospects for Robert Bork's confirmation all but sunk, former Justice Lewis Powell's empty seat may stay empty for months. In some controversial cases, the eight Justices will be delicately balanced between left and right; with two wings of equal size, the court may wind up as a kind of judicial ostrich -- lots of flap but not much flight...
...Justice John Harlan. In 1985, after Powell had been absent nearly three months for treatment of prostate cancer, the court announced eight tie rulings, although it also ordered rearguments in four cases heard in his absence. By last week there were 91 cases on the docket for review this term, with dozens more to be added. In those it chooses to decide, a tie would leave the lower-court % decision intact without setting a Supreme Court precedent...
...wide-ranging speech at Brandeis University, the six-term Congressman blasted the nation's current Middle Eastern policy, which has sent U.S. warships into the wartorn region to protect international shipping lanes. "If I am [elected] president, I am not going to send our troops to the Persian Gulf when we are buying oil from the country that threatens...