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Using techniques I first learned on the Crimson, I was able to add one chapter giving the story of how Governor Brown accomplished the minor miracle of getting the controversial farm labor bill passed. That chapter was actually written before its final passage and involved an element of risk...
...deadline for returning the corrected galley proofs was a Wednesday noon, New York time. The final compromises that permitted passage of the bill were not reached until late Monday night. On Tuesday, I waited ten hours in Governor Brown's office before getting my interview to complete the chapter. It was a hundred miles back to my home late Tuesday night where I transcribed the interview and completed the chapter. The final copy was dictated over the phone to my publisher in New York Wednesday morning. He jokingly accused me of turning the venerable Norton publishing house into a daily...
...Crimson cagers added another chapter to their new book, "Embarrassed And Harassed In the IAB," by splitting two contests this past weekend. Going from the ridiculous to the expected, the cagers fell to Brown, one of the worst teams in the country, by a 58-56 margin on Friday night, before defeating Yale, another hardwood lightweight, 73-63 on Saturday...
...slavery, nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, the Brown decision belatedly acknowledged this cruelly corrupting double standard. It focused on the nation's most sensitive testing ground of equality-the public schools. By asking for this disingenuously titled "simple justice," the Warren Court made possible a second chapter to the American Dream-a "resurrection...
...year Stanford students score in the 60-70 percentile range in nationwide tests of college freshmen reading skills. "At Stanford, that's low," explains LAC Director Michael McHargue. "People here don't know that anything below 90% exists." LAC-10 instructors teach students how to skim a chapter in a textbook for the important points and how to build up their vocabulary...