Word: texan
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...write in response to an opinion piece entitled "Confederate Flags Must Vanish" (March 4, 1996) written by David W. Brown. As a Texan and a Southerner, I was offended by what seemed to be the latest installment in your series of opinion pieces degrading the South. I abstained from entering the recent argument over the issue of memorializing Confederate soldiers on the Harvard campus becaue I agree that it is not only Harvard's right, but obligation to preserve the memory of the students who gave their life to save the Union...
...candidates, it is Gramm who is in the best position to upset Dole in Iowa. Backed by a gritty local staff, the Texan is trying to stitch together a coalition of deficit hawks, gun owners, property-rights activists and abortion opponents to win at least 25% of the vote. He is also trying to appeal to newly registered Republicans who may be fed up with the slow pace of change in Washington. If he manages it, a mistake or two by Dole in the next few weeks could make it a race...
Gramm's biggest problem in Iowa is Forbes, whose smiling visage and upbeat message of tax cuts and prosperity are an appealing contrast to the scowling Texan. The publishing tycoon is also a one-man Iowa economic boom. He has lavished $1.1 million to spread his message, more than double the combined media expenditures of his rivals. A few weeks ago, neither the Gramm nor Dole camps believed Forbes could turn out significant numbers of supporters at the time-consuming caucuses. Now they are not so sure. As Pat Buchanan told TIME, "[Forbes] is softening up Dole, he's draining...
...opposition to a memorial, is the secretive way in which this issue was handled. Alex Huppe's contention that there was an effort to have this issue "widely discussed last spring" flies in the face of common sense. Why were no minority organizations called? Why wasn't the Texan Club consulted? Why did the request for commments in the Harvard Gazette appear in June and specifically mention a summer response time? Why was, and why is, the committee's report secret and confidential? If discussion was so obviously needed, why didn't University officials pull the issue from the Board...
Donald W. Young '96-'97, chair of Harvard's Texan Club, said, "I think it's a complete travesty that there's nothing for the Confederate soldiers who lost their lives." But Reginald J. "Reg" Brown, a third-year student at the Law School and member of the HBLSA who opposes the proposal, said there are two different debates, one about the substance of the proposal and one about the process...