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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Banker would not comment on the specifics of the lawsuit, currently pending in the Middlesex Superior Court...

Author: By Erik M. Weitzman, | Title: Lawsuit Stalls Development of Gutted Site | 12/5/1989 | See Source »

Clearly the comment refers to actions of "policy" taken by the government: the quotas required by affirmative action. But its phrasing also casts the problems facing minorities in a narrow, even paternalistic manner. It says that U.S. society will acknowledge a minority's problems only if they require policy amounting to obvious "special treatment." Just who delivers the treatment remains tantalizingly vague...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Defining `Minority' | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...surveys, included in packets for all Asian-American Cultural Week events, ask members to comment on Asian-Americans' perceptions of their place at Harvard and on the difference in needs between those who recently immigrated to the U.S. and those whose families have lived here for several generations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News Briefs | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...would be great if we could get 50 surveys back," said Mayeda. She said that in past years the group has used a suggestion box to solicit comment, but water damage to AAA's office made that tactic impossible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News Briefs | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...blue-collar father, brings hot-tempered passion to the role. And Lahti, possibly the best actress in America working in TV (she won an Emmy nomination for her performance in the mini-series Amerika), is truly heartbreaking. She can convey both the despair lurking behind a brave comment to her husband and a pathetic joy at ever smaller victories. "You guys, look!" she gasps on first ^ seeing their decrepit bathroom in the welfare hotel. "Privacy!" In the controversy over fact vs. fiction, real artistry can settle a lot of debates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Let's Hear It for Fiction NO PLACE LIKE HOME | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

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