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This very temperament may have caused him to run afoul of the Democratic Club last fall while working for Silber. When the issue of Harvard Democrats working for Silber's campaign first came up early in the fall, members were quoted as saying that no one in the group had yet organized to work with the campaign. "We said we weren't formally supporting him, and it came out in The Crimson as though we weren't endorsing him," says former President of the Democratic Club Neil A. Cooper...
...only thing that differs between other professions and politics is that there is the requirement for the politician not to be selfish. In the other professions, people act in their own interest, and if they go too far in their own interest, they will run afoul...
...unreleasable because it unwisely sounded just like Les Miz and had to be junked at a cost of $500,000. But the show was radically revamped and opened on stage in London, where it remains the town's hottest ticket. On its way to Broadway, it ran afoul of the performers' union, Actors' Equity, and assorted ethnic lobbying groups. Charges that Mackintosh had not sought out enough Asian Americans escalated into a probe of racial hiring practices on all his shows; at one point he canceled the Broadway engagement in disgust and, he now reveals, reverted Miss Saigon's rights...
Sometimes the medium gets in the way of the message. Last week the Colorado chapter of Greenpeace unveiled an antinuclear billboard blitz near the idle Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant outside Denver -- and ran afoul of another environmental group: Citizens Against Billboards on Highway...
...this contretemps occur, and what are its aftereffects? In answering these questions, Gordimer moves beyond individual problems toward the anguish of a society on the brink of change. Sonny, the father, was a teacher who ran afoul of the white authorities by allowing his students to demonstrate support for a black boycott of schools. Arrested and detained, Sonny is finally convicted of subversive activities and sentenced to two years in prison. But he has gained allies in his struggle, including Hannah Plowman, a white woman who represents an international human-rights organization...