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...points, the letter is reassuring. It is fortunate that after 15 years or so, the president of the University is not yet ready to abandon Harvard's principle of diversity in admissions. And although some members of the community still quietly question the legitimacy of Afro-American studies as a discipline, it is encouraging to see Bok reaffirm his commitment...
...Working Papers magazine, has taken the first reflective and analytical examination of the subject in his book, Revolt of the Haves. Though he begins with the difficult but crucial step of acknowledging that something is wrong with the current incarnations of the Great Society, Kuttner does not suggest government abandon the cause of social justice to the free market. Kuttner proposes no liberal agenda, perhaps leaving that duty to Sen. Paul Tsongas's forthcoming book. But as a document that explains why government began to fail in the '60s, and why the people rose to punish...
...with investment, financing, technology, bilateral trade and exchange programs for scientists, scholars and especially managers. Richard Nixon, among others, has speculated about the tantalizing, though still extremely remote, possibility that Deng's program, with its stress on pragmatism over ideology, could some day even lead the Chinese to abandon not just Maoism, which it is now doing, but Marxism-Leninism. Such a monumental defection from the Red banner would be a huge setback to the Soviet Union and the cause of Communism around the world...
...Inflation is already too great. Honors grades are given out with abandon," Mansfield said, adding he "tried to urge" the Faculty council two years ago to encourage professors to limit the number of high grades they award. This is the second year Whitla has distributed the reports...
Marlowe's Faustus, fed up with the drivel in books on subjects he studies, finds boundless courage to name his sin, and to abandon himself...