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...resolution fails to confront these issues. Its standard for the University is one of "fairness," allowing an open market-place in which the military, as well as other interests, can function. We reject the notion that the University must welcome the instruments of repression in the name of freedom or the narrow self-interest of some Harvard students...
...lead the country, to get the alienated into right as the well as the disaffected left back into the mainstream. The men are different, their responses are different. Humphrey might burst into tears at hearing Russia was moving, into, say Rumania. But he'd recover, and quickly confront a cold political situation. Nixon would tackle it as a cold political situation from the beginning. There is a legitimate argument as to which reaction is more appropriate in today's world, and that may be what the 1968 election is all about...
Such disparity rises partly out of the obstacles that confront Negroes everywhere: inferior education, lack of capital, the despair of ghetto life, the fear of failure. Negroes lack a heritage of business experience. Successful blacks have gone into law, medicine, religion. Without much exposure to business, a young Negro is often inadequately trained in the fundamentals that whites take for granted, including bookkeeping. When he ventures into enterprise, he runs into a financial community that often rejects him for reasons that strike him as strange: a shortage of collateral, a dim credit history, a lack of precise records...
...only 5 ft. tall and she weighs just 901bs., but Spain's ponderous judiciary moved to confront her with all the caution of a broken-horned bull facing a top-ranking torero. She was, after all, the Duchess of Medina Sidonia, three times a grandee of Spain, and she had proved herself a troublesome opponent in the past. In 1967, she was arrested for her role in organizing a farmers' protest march to demand additional U.S. compensation for damages suffered when three U.S. nuclear bombs accidentally fell near Palomares. This time, the problem centered on an explosive novel...
...perception that radical ideas are not fully or articulately represented in the current Harvard curriculum. We feel this is wrong, and in part this course is meant to alter (or mitigate) this imbalance. We believe that it is crucial for students to understand and confront radical ideas about American society in any case, but because we consider ourselves radicals, we feel that when they do understand these ideas, they will see their validity...