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...brass tacks piece by Adriane Y. Stewart ("Going After Black Frats," May 18) gives the impression that the issues in debate between my office and those groups have to do with the fact that they are Black. Stewart also discusses the possible lack of understanding of the Black experience and so on. Actually, I am concerned with them as single-sex institutions. The same issues arose with the final clubs that wish to use our facilities, and it is well known that we have severed our ties with them. I do not think that we should have a double standard...
Although the drug dealers have left Mayfair Mansions, most have merely moved next door to another housing project, called Paradise Manor. Residents there also requested help, and on Friday the Muslims went into the adjacent complex with a parade of several hundred people, including city officials and a brass band. As the Muslims marched into Paradise, Mayfair residents were pleased and thankful about the change in their community. Said Glenn French, Mayfair's property manager: "Something good has happened here...
...conjecture over second place rose to a roar, Jackson realized that it was a damaging distraction as well as a tacit admission that the brass ring was beyond his reach. Dukakis even kidded Jackson Friday night during their first one-on-one debate. When a questioner asked about Jackson's interest in the vice-presidential nomination, Dukakis ostentatiously stage-whispered, "Are you interested? Talk to me later." Jackson responded with a playful elbow...
...weeks ago, a "go Eli" call from a Yale alumnus was interrupted by a beep signaling a competing exhortation from Brown. Soon after, Brown asked Rios to join other acceptees on a chartered Amtrak train ride to the school, where a whirl of receptions awaited, as did a brass band...
...candle in a brass goblet burns on one of the little tables. Karla points out the window, hunkers down: "Shhh, children, listen, the church bells...