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...veritable how to manual. Now it seems that our friends on the left don't practice what they preach. They've spilt so much ink over the years calling for greater sensitivity to minority concerns at Harvard. For all of these years, it's just been the pot calling the kettle black...
...Athens in the late '70s. It was not altogether friendship at first sight. "We were definitely in different camps in school," says Berry. "((Mills)) was kind of the nerdy, preppie, straight-A student who hung out with the other straight-A students, and I was more the pot-smoking cool dude who hung around with the seedy element." As a teenager, Stipe wore unstylish corduroy pants with ribs as thick as ropes and drenched his hair with mustard. Despite that -- or perhaps because of it -- Buck found Stipe's "weird" taste in music appealing. All four eventually linked...
...Armstrong said, "Union work rules prevent dishwashers from washing pots and pot washers from washing dishes." It's unfortunate that Ms. Armstrong didn't take even one moment to attend any of the mediation sessions which were held. If she had, she would have heard a Harvard Club executive manager openly admit to a federal mediator that all employees do whatever jobs they are asked...
...legacy leaves a daunting question. Why can we not find such a national project in today's contentious world that would give us a common purpose? What about a fleet of hypersonic transport planes that would move Moscow and Tokyo as close as Chicago? "Too many hands stirring the pot," says Keith Glennan, the first director of NASA. He remembers the daring and boldness of the leaders back then and fears that those qualities can no longer be found in a political system that seems to honor timidity. Why not health care or welfare reform or the elimination of deficit...
...past, says Bachman, "the agents of coercion seem to be doing their job." But how long can they keep the pot from boiling over? "In a society where there are mechanisms for reconciliation," says Han Dongfang, "there can be a balance of various interests. But in China that mechanism doesn't exist. And the state is confused about its role." The result is a building of tensions. "The government has a choice," says Robin Munro, the Hong Kong director of Human Rights Watch/Asia. "It can try to keep the lid on by arresting more dissidents and wait...