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...Kissinger and Nixon kept these letters secret from Congress -- and even from the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As it turned out, Congress was unwilling to authorize force either to press the MIA issue or to save the Thieu government. When the secret letters became public two years later, an uproar ensued that further undermined Kissinger's credibility...
Three years ago, Harvard changed its housing lottery in an effort to break some House stereotypes and to create a more diverse atmosphere. At the time, there was an enormous uproar that students would no longer have any choice in the housing lottery. So the University settled on a compromise plan that allows blocking groups to list four house to be placed in random order, if their lottery number is high enough, they get one of those four houses...
...movie director Spike Lee set off a small tabloid uproar not long ago when he suggested that young blacks should skip school if necessary to see his movie biography of Malcolm X when it opens this fall. A hideously wrong message, people said, undermining discipline and education. But Spike Lee understands a central truth: what is occurring today is a war of American myths, a struggle of contending stories. And pop culture, often television, is the arena in which it is being fought...
...this really a constitutional crisis, as some are suggesting, comparable to the uproar surrounding Edward VIII's abdication in 1936? Or is it merely a sign that the relentless bottom feeders among British newspapers have gobbled out of control...
What sparked the political uproar in Europe and the U.S. last week were emotional new charges that each faction in Bosnia is running a network of internment camps where beatings, torture, starvation and even murder are commonplace. International observers have been scrambling to investigate the claims, most of which come from interested parties, but inspectors have largely been kept out of the places they most want to see. Until they get unhampered access, sorting out reality from propaganda will be impossible...