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...Every time the policy has changed, the students have adjusted their behavior and still managed to have a social life that involves alco- hol,' Mobley says. 'Everyone will adjust andsocial life will go on happily...
Harvard has made no movement to alter itspolicy of need-blind admissions since the end ofoverlap, and Rudenstine said the University hasnot had to make any changes to adjust. "It's morea question of what happens to the whole system,"he said. "We're more worried about the totalenvironment and future repercussions...
Clinton's pledge was the first of many promises he and his health team would have to adjust to reality. Over the next 18 months, Clinton's reform plan grew from a necessary campaign plank into a centerpiece of his presidency, and the President's attitude was marked by a whatever-it-takes practicality. For one thing, his aides reworked the timing of the scheme. Clinton now concedes he will need another year to enact his plan and three more to put it fully into place. After insisting that raising taxes wasn't necessary, Clinton's aides made an increase...
...author is relatively successful in arguing that Hill was professionally incompetent and unable to adjust to a high-powered life in Washington. He lays this failing at the door of affirmative action, perhaps forgetting that mediocrity respects no racial boundaries. Brock suggests that Hill was fired from her first job at the now-defunct law firm, Wald, Harkrader and Ross, because of incompetence and sought to camouflage this incompetence by leveling charges of sexual harassment...
Unfortunately, as Nelson writes, she was not always able to help herself adjust to the demands of mainstream journalism. A gifted prose stylist, she could not blend her need to write from a black perspective with the ostensibly objective stance of a conventional daily. Post editors claimed that they recruited Nelson because they valued her viewpoint. But when she wrote wrote anything with a point of view, they usually buried the story in the back pages or didn't publish it. Increasingly frustrated by second-rate assignments and alienated from her peers, Nelson veered toward an emotional breakdown. Her last...