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With Meese probably heading off to become Attorney General, Baker will make a play to consolidate the Pragmatists' control of the White House. This week he plans to ask Reagan to abolish Meese's old Counsellor job. Baker wants to prevent Reagan from putting a True Believer into the spot. He is particularly eager to stop U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick from moving into a newly created role as counselor for foreign policy. Baker feels so strongly about this that if Reagan does not go along, he may submit his resignation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election '84: A Preview of the Reagan Revolution, Part Two | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...February, then-first-year law student Carol S. Steiker '82 told a cheering crowd. "The immediate objective is to abolish grades as a workable criterion for Law Review selection, and to force the Law Review to turn to a more rational means of selection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Law Review | 9/29/1984 | See Source »

...when Feldstein, returning to Harvard to oversee Social Analysis 10, "Principles of Economics," decided to abolish the more than decade-long tradition of radical sections in that course, students and faculty alike were understandably upset. Four hundred students--close to half the class' enrollment--signed petitions last week asking for the reinstatement of the sections, and organizers are still canvassing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Let's Get Radical | 9/27/1984 | See Source »

Govoni will add another voice to the struggle to maintain social programs despite cuts in Federal aid, to preserve the environment in the face of industrial expansion, and to work to abolish discrimination in the state...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Go Govoni | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

Govoni will add another voice to the struggle to maintain social programs despite cuts in Federal aid, to preserve the environment in the face of industrial expansion, and to work to abolish discrimination in the state...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Go Govoni | 9/13/1984 | See Source »

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