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...notable dearth of women and minority Faculty members has prompted strong criticism from University groups and at least one federal review of Harvard's hiring practices. And with the prospect of slackening federal enforcement of affirmative action regulations, some in the University community have warned that Harvard may soon abandon efforts to hire more women and minority scholars...
Higher education's painfully built-up reputation as a process offering an unusual degree of equal access to all classes has thus been dealt a severe philosophical blow. And as the cuts and rising costs force school after school to abandon publicly their idealistic aid-blind policies, a vicious cycle of cuts and retrenchment is fueled...
...probes around San Salvador last week. On Monday, groups of insurgents attacked army posts in the suburbs of Cuscatancingo, Mejicanos and Villa Delgado. Next day, rebels opened fire on the army-escorted funeral procession of two civil guardsmen killed in the Cuscatancingo clash, causing the mourners to scatter and abandon the cortege...
...minutes Monday night. Vellucci seemed to have finally made up his mind to abandon his strategy of using condos for political capital "I ask my colleagues on the council to take their condominium amendments and hold them until another day," he said. The condo debate, Vellucci explained, had hundred discussion of more pressing matters...
...before the end of the night. Vellucci showed that the condo debate has proved too beneficial to his own political fortunes to abandon it so abruptly. The Mayor introduced a resolution to allow a group of Linnean St and Washington Ave tenants to own and occupy their apartments as condos "unhindered by rules or regulations of the city." Thus, he reopened a case of disputed condo conversion on which conservatives campaigning for the council had focused their rhetoric back in November...