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...unpredictable nature of Ms. Bush's previous community service commitment as mandated by the Sheriff of Austin County, the White House cannot guarantee that scheduling will permit her full participation...
...committee headed out into the field again as the list winnowed. They spoke with other faculty at institutions where possible candidates worked, and then, eventually, Goodheart's office called directly, asking whether Mr. X or Ms. Y would be interested in discussing Harvard University and its future. Again, two or three members, and sometimes even four for the more serious candidates, would arrive at an interviewee's office to talk about Harvard. They would ask the same questions asked at the beginning of the search: How is Harvard perceived? What does it need? Where is higher education going? Who would...
...Liberal South African whites reacted with amazement. It was as though a school board in America had said students were forbidden to read the Declaration of Independence - or "Huckleberry Finn," for that matter. Ms. Gordimer responded with high dudgeon similar to that of the ANC; she said that "if the selectors of fiction are looking for moral lessons against racism, few could be more telling than the situation in this novel...
...afraid Ms. Gordimer just doesn't get it. Her hilariously self-righteous response - which reads like the sort of pretentious literary description that the book would get in Cliff Notes - shows that her own attitudes are as anachronistic as the idea of the noble savage. "The black servant takes full responsibility for the couple," she writes, "sheltering them among his own people; even if students miss the irony of the reversal of dependence - white now dependent on black - this act of non-racial human feeling and tolerance is glaringly evident...
...Among his own people. White now dependent on black. What Ms. Gordimer does not seem to understand - like most of the well-heeled white families who populate this lovely resort town on the Indian Ocean where I'm staying - is that July's People are the people of this country, and that South Africa is now an African country. The sensitive moral register of the white readers of Ms. Gordimer's fiction - and I promise you, Ms. Gordimer had no black South African readers - doesn't much matter anymore. Whites no longer have to be persuaded that blacks should have...