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...Harvard's gradual march from national to international prominence, the most publicized initial step may have been its advisory links with the Third-World...
There is a fundamental lack of communication between minority students and the administration. The Foundation and its current activities serve as a case in point. In response to requests for a Third-World center, the University threw Black students a bone in the form of the Foundation. In what may have been interpreted as a spiteful move all of the Black student organizations last semester refused to bite. Although they have recently reconsidered, choosing to accept funding from the Foundation for lack of anything more palatable, the fact that the boycotts occurred at all indicates a tragic gap between what...
...ever been in the Raft Race knows what fun it can be. Every year, one of the rafts seems to enjoy what President Reagan might call "a definite margin of superiority For one afternoon, the Charles becomes a microcosm of international relations, complete with superpowers, neutral parties, and unstable third-world entries from places as remote as South House...
IMAGINE the following scenario--Act 1: The press reveals that President Carter and two of his first cousins accepted an unknown quantity of diamonds from a blood-lustful, third-world tyrant; that Rosalynn Carter uses privileged White House information to turn a profit on the stock market; that Carter's closest adviser may have had foreknowledge of the murder of a noted political figure. Act II: No congressional inquiry of the President takes place. Instead, Carter wins a second term in a landslide victory...
Brief, staccato bursts of things everyone fears but is unable to do anything about appeared in Guyana last week. The events rankled of third-world terrorism, possible mercenary involvement (in the airstrip murders), government corruption and laziness, both on the part of Guyana and the United States. The presence of conspiracy-man Mark Lane as Jones's attorney, warning that Ryan's investigation would have disastrous results, even adds heat to the conspiracy theories. One gets the nagging feeling that all of these seemingly random things are tied up somehow, but in fact they aren't, at least...