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This means that the appointment of another theorist is probably in line following the departure for Stanford of theorist David Kreps, and the tenuring of an area specialist is pending following the death of Middle East specialist A J. Meyer and the retirement of Soviet expert Abram Bergson...
...current minority of the Commission?) that all this was done without "long deliberations." The editorial ignores the reality that there has been a split in the supporters of civil rights on issues such as quotas and busing since the early 1970's. It is outrageous in suggesting that Morris Abram and John Bunzel are not independent, are "mouthpieces" for Reagan (or anyone), and are not supporters of civil rights. The Jewish civil rights groups, many other ethnic-group defense organizations, and many supporters of civil rights in universities and colleges oppose quotas What else was the Bakke fight about...
Said Reagan Appointee Morris Abram, a prominent Democratic lawyer: "Nothing will ultimately divide a society more than this kind of reverse discrimination...
...lively news conference at the end of the Hunt Valley meeting, Berry confronted Abram and Chairman Clarence Pendleton Jr., an earlier Reagan appointee who had been in a conservative minority on the old commission. Said Pendleton: "I sat at this commission for 18 months and got beat up all kinds of ways . .. Now [the new members] are here, and we are going to do the best job we can for the American citizens." Berry, who could hardly conceal her disdain for the chairman, said that the commission "is no longer the conscience of America on civil rights" and added...
...more generally, he bolstered the intellectual role in running the country. While Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 both made brain trusts their trademarks. Kennedy brought the practice to new heights. Abram Chayes, Frankfurter Professor of Law and legal adviser to the State Department under Kennedy, says that his boss "was the watershed. He made [blending academics and government] very attractive and easy to do." Chayes notes. "It was a different sense of involvement between the presidency and the academic community than ever before. Academics became a power position...