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...first period looked like a total wash for the Crimson--junior forward Steve Martins had the only legitimate scoring chance for either team, missing a short-handed breakaway opportunity in the game's second minute--and numerous turnovers stifled a Harvard offense which came into the game averaging almost five and a half goals per contest...
...nail upon which American identity is hung comes from Pap, in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, who upon learning a Negro could vote in Ohio, "drawed out. I says I'll never vote ag'in." Without his glowing white mask he is not American; he is Faulkner's character Wash, in Absalom, Absalom!, who, stripped of the mask and treated like a "nigger," drives a scythe into the heart of the rich white man he has loved and served so completely...
...Wash, the possibility that race talk might signify nothing was frightening. Which may be why the harder it is to speak race talk convincingly, the more people seem to need it. As American blacks occupy more and more groups no longer formed along racial lines, the pressure accelerates to figure out what white interests really are. The enlisted military is almost one-quarter black; police forces are blackening in large urban areas. But welfare is nearly two-thirds white; affirmative-action beneficiaries are overwhelmingly white women; dysfunctional white families jam the talk shows and court...
Peter W. Duncan '97 said it was too expensivefor him to travel back to Seattle, Wash...
...structured environment. The hours,too, are somewhat unorthodox: 5:45 a.m. to noon,on weekends only. There are no motorcycles ormonkeys here, but the prices are certainly muchlower. And a visitor can find anything here, aswell--as long as he or she doesn't mind digging,or having to wash that one-of-a-kind shirtdiscovered at the bottom...