Word: access
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...Robert A. Ainsworth Jr., "the inevitable results would be that truly heinous or notorious acts would go unpunished." Besides, he added, the members of the Calley court-martial panel were scrupulously examined for their ability to be fair and open-minded. Five appeals judges believed Calley was unconstitutionally denied access to the findings of a congressional My Lai investigation, but an eight-man majority felt that his defense was not really hurt and reinstated his conviction. The case, with its important publicity v. fair-trial question, will now be appealed to the Supreme Court, but for Calley himself, working...
Leaving her post involves for Arthurs the acceptance of these inevitabilities, an acceptance made more comfortable by her confidence in equal access. "I think we'll have more women in the immediate future, a lot more women in the next few years, and I don't think 60:40 will be difficult to achieve," she says. "Of course it all depends on the economy, the clarity of our presentation of Harvard-Radcliffe to the outside world, and what the women's colleges do. But if there is any college that can achieve 50:50, Harvard can do it." Arthurs...
...central or pivotal role. I'll read some folders, sit in on committee meetings." Arthurs will remain a member of the Faculty's standing committee on admissions and financial aid and will probably chair a sub-committee that will review the results of the first year of equal access. It is a task she is looking forward...
Kearns is often called "brilliant" and "disarming," able to win over almost anyone after a few minutes of conversation. Her post in the Johnson Administration, which gave her access to enough intimate details of the president's life to put together a psychobiography, came quite unexpectedly, shortly after she co-authored an article for The New Republic on how to dump Johnson...
Stone's archaeology and history are accurate. He also had access to the Schliemann archives at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. He was even able to see most of the unpublished correspondence between Schliemann and Sophia. But the book's main flaw is that it observes Schliemann solely through the eyes of a wife who never saw him until he was middleaged. Novelizing thus gets in the way of biography; the reader is on hand for the exciting excavation scenes, but not for the development of a mind as rich and extraordinary as Troy itself...