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...Asian-Americans appear to many as being very successful, so the many instances of subtle discrimination and racism don't often get addressed," Mayeda said...
LEFTISTS and rightists at Harvard share a tendency to reject all activist militance as empty militance. Conservatives predictably reject nearly all student activism as overblown. Leftists themselves are also to blame, though, for rejecting innovative options. Reluctant to appear too radical, activists here rarely deviate from the norm of University Hall rallies. COCA's recent tactics are undoubtedly militant, and unusual for Harvard, but they are anything but empty...
...from being a uniformly distributed collection of galaxies, as the textbooks have long assumed, the cosmos seems to be organized into immense bubbles, each of them about 150 million light-years across. The walls of the bubbles are galaxies, and the interiors appear to be virtually empty. Most surprising of all is a feature Geller and Huchra call the "Great Wall" -- a sheet of galaxies at least 200 million light-years wide, 500 million long and perhaps 15 million thick. It looks like a single structure, but the scientists say it may instead be made up of the walls...
Huchra, who made the telescopic observations for the Harvard-Smithsonian team, used an instrument called a spectrograph to break down each galaxy's light into its constituent colors. Within the spectrum he could see lines representing various elements in and around the galaxy's stars. These lines appear to be shifted toward the red end of the spectrum, depending on how fast the galaxy is moving and thus how far away from earth it is. By carefully measuring the degree of red shift, Huchra and Geller calculated the relative positions of the galaxies...
...make a reasonable case. In this conflict between career military "defenders" and soon-to-be-civilian attorneys over the rights of the accused, the imbalance is not in the play but in the minds of audiences. The flood tide of change in the Communist world makes the military appear less vital and its resistance to civilian due process repugnant, not a regrettable necessity...