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...result has been tragic: while the rich celebrate the recent period of economic growth, the poor have seen few changes. Income inequality in the United States remains unconscionably high, and racial rifts continue to characterize urban life. A telling statistic: if current trends continue, one-half of all American children will be poor by the year...
...writing to set the record straight on the Bush Administration's policy of dealing with events in China since the tragic and violent repression of pro-democacy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square last June 3-4. The Executive Board of the Harvard Republican Club gives its full support and admiration to the Chinese students' courageous fight for liberty, as does President Bush. However, we feel that the editorial cartoon published in the Feb. 1 issue of The Crimson which blasted Bush for vetoing a bill allowing Chinese students to remain in the U.S. after their visas expire, overlooked some key facts...
Under the anti-harassment codes that are being passed at universities across the country, I could be expelled for saying or writing this sentence in a malicious context. Many people are lamenting such a tragic restriction of free speech in academia...
...America enters the next decade, it does so with an appalling legacy of gun violence. The 1980s were tragic years that saw nearly a quarter of a million Americans die from handguns -- four times as many as were killed in the Viet Nam War. We began the decade by witnessing yet another President, Ronald Reagan, become a victim of a would-be assassin's bullet. That day my husband Jim, his press secretary, also became a statistic in America's handgun...
...just don't think I belong in public life," said a dejected Crawford. Said Cartwright: "I have been royally used." But the Governor had the last word: "I think the whole thing can be categorized as tragic...