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...ever since the Shi'ites split off from the dominant Sunni Muslims in the 7th century. Of the world's 750 million Muslims, less than 20% are Shi'ites. Some 42 million of them are in Iran, where they make up 92% of the population. To the long-downtrodden underclass of Shi'ites in Lebanon, some 40% of the population, Khomeini's fundamentalist - revolution was an inspiration to rise up against their perceived oppressors: Western and Arab, Christian and Jewish. "If you develop a psychosis that the whole world is against you," says M. Cherif Bassiouni, professor of international...
Meanwhile, Harvard's transfers continue to believe they are an undergraduate underclass. Below, five students reflect on their decision to come to Harvard in the middle of their college careers...
Most people in prisons are repent offenders, in part because there in hardly enough room in the nation's prisons for first time criminals, but also because our society is developing an underclass of common criminally. The National Coalition for Jail Reform reports that, of the 500,000 women who spent time in jail during 1984, 58 percent had lived on less that $3000 a year and 92 percent had lived on less than $10,000 a year. Clearly, prostitution, drug use, mugging and petty crimes are associated with lack of economic opportunity and of social infrastructure. Without services like...
...that the home team gets to suspend Rule 1 whenever it wants to flaunt its self- assurance. Cynthia Pickles, local ice princess and founder of Overview ("a journal of opinion for all sides"), coolly sleeps with Teeters, accepts his nuptial propositions but marries smooth, rich Jerry Chirouble. Pickles' underclass equivalent is Toby Snapper, a waitress whose services to Teeters include imitations of a pliant Cockney maid...
Harvard Liberalism, A healthy regard for toleration, diversity, and the rights and interests of the underclass. Galbraith, Schlesinger, the Kennedys. That's the model that draws us here, but how much of it is real? How much of what is asserted in the name of liberalism on this campus is merely enlightened self-interest that disappears when out own lives are at stake? Does principled opposition to the death penalty evaporate when the victim is one of us? The evidence does not support the answer we like to hear...