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...affiliation with the Kuumba singers is sufficient to keep her in touch with her Black heritage. And Lance E. Gravely '94, the lone Black member of the Porcellian, traditionally considered the most exclusive final club, says he gained a "racial awareness" because of recent events like the Rodney King verdict, not from the BSA, of which he is not a member...
...puff of smoke, it all might have turned out differently. Last week General Motors Corp. might still have been reeling from a $105.2 million jury verdict, awarded to an Atlanta couple whose son died when his GM truck exploded in a collision. NBC News might have been touting itself for having exposed the danger of GM's controversial "sidesaddle" gas tanks in a riveting Dateline NBC segment. Instead the network singed its reputation, and the car company won in the court of public opinion the safety battle it had lost in the courthouse...
...restraint was less apparent in recent years, perhaps because Ashe knew that so much needed to be done in so little time. Referring to the violence that shattered Los Angeles after the Rodney King verdict, he preferred to call it a "revolt," knowing full well that the word expressed a more powerful image of response to racial repression than the term most commonly used, "riot." On the other hand, he earned the outrage of many black coaches and educators by supporting a proposition that requires minimum standards of academic performance in exchange for athletic eligibility. Many African- American athletes fell...
...appealing that verdict. The institute is basing its appeal on what it feels are flaws in the judge's reasoning, according to Kenneth E. Campbell, director of the MIT News Office...
Diamond says the MBTA won't agree formally to the guidelines until a verdict is reached in a currently pending lawsuit...