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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this campus should be made to feel that he or she is a second-class citizen, and certainly the University should not be the agent which provides this impression. It is time for the administration to affirm its own policies: discrimination on this campus will not be permitted on any basis or by any group or individual. It is time that it issued a statement proclaiming that until ROTC changes its discriminatory policies Harvard will not begin to consider allowing its presence on campus for any reason. It is time that the University says that discrimination supported by the United...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROTC | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...defenders will claim that the average citizen can't understand the necessity of these seemingly trivial investigations. The motive for beginning this long and costly investigation, however, was not a legitimate security concern, but J. Edgar Hoover's paranoia. The FBI had no probable cause and no evidence that librarians were tools of a Soviet conspiracy. Even more disturbing, Sessions still doesn't believe that FBI was doing anything out of the ordinary...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: Tinker, Taylor, Librarian, Spy | 11/9/1989 | See Source »

PROPONENTS bill the mortgage interest deduction as the average citizen's ticket to the American Dream--home ownership. Unfortunately, the average citizen gets only a small portion of the benefits. The mortgage interest deduction is worth far more to the rich, who are in higher tax brackets and tend to own more expensive homes...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Middle Class on the Dole | 11/8/1989 | See Source »

Chess' biggest persona since Bobby Fisher, the 26-year old Soviet citizen strutted around Sanders Theater Saturday, moving pieces on different boards in no apparent order. He started at the boards for a moment, moved a piece and stopped his time clock--all in a jiffy...

Author: By Benjamin Dattner, | Title: Chess Champion Kasparov Crushes Harvard, 8-0 | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

Square Books (25,000; Oxford, Miss.). This charming store in a Reconstruction- era building carries a full range of titles and offers tomato-basil pie in a second-floor cafe. Owner Richard Howorth maintains a local flavor with a section devoted to Oxford's best-known citizen, William Faulkner. A small sign above the stack of copies of the 8 1/2-lb. Encyclopedia of Southern Culture reads, $5.98 PER LB. SAME AS CATFISH FILLETS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rattling | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

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