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Savage's tirade unleashed a storm that sent Democratic leaders running -- or rather, tiptoeing -- for cover. By failing to condemn Savage quickly, they left themselves open to accusations that their party, anxious not to offend black voters, applies a double standard: denouncing bigotry when Republicans utter racially insensitive remarks and keeping mum when similar slurs are made by African Americans. Such accusations are all the more damning because Republicans, whose veiled appeals to anti-black prejudice have helped win five out of the last six presidential elections, only recently confronted a similar problem and appeared to deal with it firmly...
...What utter nonsense, what Orwellian doubletalk is the statement of Dean of Undergraduate Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons '67 that Harvard's policy of giving special consideration to legacy students helps ensure need-blind admissions! Many legacy students are admitted only because of their legacy status--due, says Fitzsimmons, at least in part to the deep pockets of these students' families...
...worst that could happen? You don't get the job? You don't get the job and the interviewer gets sick on your application? You don't get the job, the interviewer gets sick on your application and you must face family and friends as a complete and utter failure...
...Father Christopher G. Phillips, the first married priest to head a U.S. parish, rejects the double-standard complaint, noting that the ex-priests have broken vows taken voluntarily to observe lifelong celibacy. Phillips reports that reactions he has received from Catholic colleagues run the gamut from "great joy to utter disdain...
...alarming toll. Many Panamanians criticized the failure of the Americans to move against the looting that engulfed Panama City. "There should have been troops placed along commercial arteries," complained Steve Maduro, a past director of Panama's Chamber of Commerce. "Our police force was nonexistent, and it was utter chaos for three days...