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Many Harvard students graduating today have found clashes involving free speech and diversity to be among the most intense and hurtful experiences they have had at college. From Bridget L. Kerrigan's Confederate flag to Leonard Jeffries, from Ice T to Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 and Colin L. Powell, the Class of 1993 has had to grapple with diversity and freedom of expression. Some wish such disagreements never occurred: that Mansfield never opened his mouth, that Ice T never brought his "cop-killer" campaign to Harvard Law School and that the campus was a sea of peace and tranquility...
...Southern pride" clashed with condemnation of the Civil War-era South's treatment of Blacks when two springs ago Bridget A. Kerrigan '91 hung a Confederate flag in her window. The protests that ensued made national news, and in a book that ensued made national news, and in a book that appeared last summer syndicated columnist Nat Hentoff painted Kerrigan as a martyr of political correctness...
...spring of 1991, Bridget I. Kerrigan '91 grabbed national headlines--and the ire of many students--when she hung a confederate flag from her Kirkland House window. National columnists focused on Kerrigan's assertion of free expression, and used her example to expound against the tyranny of political correctness...
THERE'S PERHAPS NO POINT TO POINT OF NO RETURN. It's a remake of an unimprovably stylish, very entertaining thriller -- La Femme Nikita -- that was released just two years ago. But hey, that was in French. Why not let people who hate subtitles in on the fun? Bridget Fonda is a sort of Dirty Harriet, a reprieved murderer turned into an elegant assassin by a mysterious government agency. She and her handler (Gabriel Byrne) fall into unconsummated love. She sublimates with gunplay while growing wistful for normality. John Badham's film seems to have more firepower and slightly softer...
...RECORDS: Richard Mierzwa, Anna Buonocore (Managers); Bridget Cronin, Nancy O'Sullivan, Ed Smith...