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...first session began, members of the week-old group "Strategic Offensive" disrupted class for about five minutes by walking on stage, shouting and carrying signs that read "Keep Harvard Straight" and "Keep Harvard White...
Richards, along with Catherine S. Corman '96, members of the week-old group "Strategic Offense," had come to protest the presence of Mansfield and Will on the Harvard faculty. Armed with flowers, they approached the two discomfited lecturers and presented them with mock prizes: the "David Duke Award for Faculty Excellence" for Mansfield and the "Heinrich Himmler Award for Social Vision" for Will...
...pinch, whole cities can be demonized. Last spring Joseph Bales and Helene Lemay, a French-Canadian couple, found their 10-week-old daughter Muguet dead in her crib. Convinced that they might be accused of killing her, they disposed of the child's body in a wooded area 100 miles from home, then proceeded in their pickup truck to New York City, where they told police that their daughter had disappeared in Central Park. In the two-day search that followed, helicopters, bloodhounds and scuba divers scoured the park and its waterways until the couple broke down and confessed. They...
...British government announced that security in Northern Ireland would be slightly reduced in response to the Irish Republican Army's week-old cease- fire. I.R.A. political chief Gerry Adams shook hands with Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds on the steps of Dublin's Government Buildings, and the two leaders said they were "totally and absolutely committed to democratic and peaceful methods" of solving the province's political problems. A meeting between hard-line Protestant leader Ian Paisley and British Prime Minister John Major did not fare as well: Paisley was ejected from No. 10 Downing Street almost immediately after...
...went on to assert that "under the council's standards, a proper referendum petition should not be packed," a word to which he imputes vaguely sinister undertones, but one which I must confess I still do not understand. Once again, the "council's standards" are a week-old creation of Carey W. Gabay, in response to the petition...