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However obvious, it should be noted that not all Hispanic, Black, Asian, or Native American students would be offended by the usual denial of their backgrounds. That is a valid choice of idently and association which each individual must make. At Harvard, however, some students are being denied the opportunity to assert their cultural identity...
...current cinematic trend, seen in Places in the Heart and now in Jessica Lange's new film Country, has taken upon itself the unenviable task of giving Meaning to the once familiar and unportentuous storm. While the tradition of literary storms, from King Lear to Moby Dick, is a valid one, in a less subtle medium like film, such an obvious use of symbolism can come across as heavy-handed and simplistic. Country is no exception...
Like many of his colleagues, McGinn rejects the Administration's explanation of Central American instability. Rather than laying the blame on Cuban and Soviet penetration. McGinn sees the problem as one rooted in centuries of poverty and injustice. Not does he regard the analogy with Cuba as a particularly valid...
...Wall Street Journal, with the most rigidly polemical editorial page of any major paper, seeks to vary its Johnny-one-note tone by using some outside voices. Irving Kristol and Arthur Schlesinger are well-matched middleweights, but was Alexander Cockburn craftily picked for his left-wing pyrotechnics or as valid spokesman for a point of view...
...about $450,000 in profits, to give up the securities business permanently, and to cooperate in the prosecution of Winans, Carpenter and Felis. He was not included in last week's indictment, and is expected to be a prosecution witness. But a substantial question remains as to how valid the case will be. Officials of the Journal, which has been bitterly critical of Winans and the alleged plot, said last week that the paper may go to court to debate the indictment on constitutional grounds. The accused men took a more extreme version of the same position: whatever...