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Under Harvard's present system, tenure decisions are consigned to ad hoc committees of experts from outside the University. This archaic process excludes innovative scholarship, devalues teaching skills and drives young talent to other schools....Rudenstine should consider installing a tenure track. At the very least, he should abolish the ad hocs...
Cousin, who is black, is one of 63 juvenile offenders on death row in prisons around the U.S. Two-thirds of this group are minorities, and two-thirds of their alleged victims were white. "What that tells me," says Steven Hawkins, executive director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, "is that while we as a society are willing to give second chances to white children, that understanding gets lost when it comes to black or Latino kids...
...CCSR voted in favor of proposals to abolish cigarette smoking in Wendy's restaurants. It did not follow ACSR's recommendation of support for the proposal that H.B. Fuller should report on its sales of adhesive materials to the tobacco industry and any risks posed by those sales...
...protesting about practices of execution in China," said John R. Osborne, the Northeast regional coordinator of Abolish the Death Penalty, a part of Amnesty International. "We hope that there will be a growing consciousness to stop oppression in China and Tibet...
...just a skirmish in a larger battle plan by some conservatives to sweep away the graduated income tax altogether. Even as he introduced the Kerrey-Portman bill, Archer, who supports a national sales tax, said it was just a holding measure "until the great day comes when we can abolish the income tax completely." A White House flip-flop on that one would be something...