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In 1967, historian Harold Cruse observed that "the Negro intellectual [was] a retarded child" whose thinking was still committed to mimicry and racial integration. Well, it is now 1985 and things have changed considerably--they're worse! Let us for example consider Harvard. Here we have one of the most...
THE PROBLEM, therefore, with MacKinnon's bill lies in a sense precisely in its explicitness, "the quick-fix appeal" of coding into law a short-term memory of more deeply rooted, that is, historical inequalities. "Should we burn it?," Suleiman warns, is a trap. Scrubbing away at unpleasant surfaces is...
To corporate executives, naming a successor is like acknowledging one's own mortality. Even for secure, welladjusted CEOs it can be an unpleasant experience. Certainly it has proved a difficult task for Harry Jack Gray, 65, the chairman of Hartford-based United Technologies. Four potential successors have come and gone...
But for other parties, "it's going to be a burden for committee members who will have to card. It's going to be unpleasant, and I don't think people are going to have as much fun," Sprague said.
The move to preserve the tree's wood came as an unpleasant shock to Matthew L. Ranen '89 and Nathan B. Tropp '89, who yesterday afternoon had made considerable progress rolling part of the trunk back to their Wigglesworth suite. "It would have made a great table," Ranen said.