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...Stern, editorial writer for the Denver Post, dean of the University of Colorado School of Journalism, and a former Nieman Fellow, said he has drawn the conclusion "that there is nothing wrong with a Harvard man or woman becoming a skilled journalist, so long as Harvard has done nothing overt to cause it. That would explain," he said, "why no such stigma applies to the Nieman Fellows, who acquired their journalistic skills elsewhere and merely use them to draw the best out of Harvard...
Jimmy Carter's now-fabled desire to avoid overt reliance on the traditional Boston-Washington axis in this year's presidential campaign consequently doesn't appear to be ruffling too many feathers at Harvard. What does concern many of Carter's hundreds of newfound advisors, however, is that their massive output may not receive adequate attention, by dint of its sheer bulk...
...Christian Democrats have lately received help from an expected-but in some measure unwelcome-source. For the first time since the days when Alcide de Gasperi was the D.C. leader and autocratic Pope Pius XII threatened to excommunicate all Italians who voted Communist, the Vatican is taking a more overt part in an Italian campaign. Addressing a national conference of bishops last month, Pope Paul VI used the personal pronoun I instead of the pontifical we to stress his interest in the election. He obliquely exhorted Catholic voters to remain united behind the traditional Catholic party. At a weekly audience...
...dealings with workers have never been marked with fairness. According to several workers and students who have seen Simpson in action, he likes his workers to be docile, cooperative--and white. Both black and white workers in the College Dining Hall--Balsam included--have recently criticized Simpson for his overt racism; Simpson, for his part, has remained silent on the issue. He also remained silent, in fact, through the recent Paul Glass case. Glass, himself black, was suspended by Simpson for what Glass characterized as "racial reasons...
...grasp the full impact of state repression on the New Left, it is necessary to place covert actions in the context of overt governmental actions of equally dubious legality, specifically the wave of prosecutions that the Nixon-Mitchell Justice Department trumped up, almost none of which has stood up in court. These trials--The Chicago 8, the Panther 21, the Harrisburg 7, Bobby Seale, and Huey Newton--not only deprived the left of its most capable leaders for crucial periods of time, but forced it to concentrate its energies and funds to obtain their releases. I do not want...