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These three incidents are just examples of the widespread racism in this university. No group is immune to institutional racism, from the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club, to the Harvard Lampoon, to the finals clubs, ad infinitum. The only way to combat racism is to recognize it, then struggle to eliminate...
...brought the Republicans into what it hoped would be a bipartisan economic policy. The effort got under way with a kind of scaled-down version of last summer's "domestic summit" at Camp David. Top industrialists and Wall Streeters, representatives of farmers, blacks, elderly people, consumers and civic groups were called into the White House for a weeklong series of meetings with the President's top aides. Eventually 300 people attended, and their observations filled a 56-page notebook that Presidential Assistant Anne Wexler presented to Carter's economic policy group. The recommendations were, as might...
Actually, Ford has been on the verge of diving in for weeks, but he wanted to be wooed. Last week a prominent group of the ex-President's friends, headed by former Secretary of the Air Force Thomas C. Reed, announced formation of a national Draft Ford Committee and urged Americans to write the former Chief Executive to show "there is broad support for a Ford presidency." If such backing materialized, Ford admitted, "I'd have a hard time saying no." He believes that his moderate views make him, and not Reagan, "the most electable Republican...
...moved to capitalize on the issue in New York State, where Jews are expected to cast up to 16% of the vote in the important March 25 primary. Calling the episode a "major foreign policy gaffe" and the vote "inappropriate, unwise and unjustified," Kennedy met in Manhattan with a group of Jewish leaders who were furious over the initial U.S. vote supporting the resolution. As a prominent activist bluntly put it: "We're looking for someone to love." Said Rabbi Alexander Schindler, who endorsed Kennedy months ago: "There is a sense of betrayal which is going to manifest itself...
There were a few women in the club, and Alexis told me that not all of the men were gay. He introduced me to a small group of men near the door, most of whom completely ignored me. I became annoyed. "Don't be surprised, dearie," Alexis teased, "they're just not interested in you." I felt as if I had taken a tour of a wax museum, where real people no longer lived. Someone took my arm and led me toward the dance floor. "Alexis' sister?" he asked, explaining, "this is how we do it here." He jerked...