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...correct the imbalance, the Review first voted to adopt a rigid quota system. Three editors quit, and dissension among the rest was so great that two weeks later, by a 44-36 vote, the journal decided merely to allow race and sex to be considered in choosing up to eight of the 48 editors. That too drew heavy fire, and the Review put the matter on hold for nearly a year. Last month the editors narrowly approved the mildest plan yet. Starting this spring, minority applicants may submit statements describing "economic, societal, or educational obstacles that have been overcome...
...debilitating competition with the evil Dr. Paradisio, and the disfavor that came with more "modern" times and from which he was lifted by a political cartoonist who saw in his comical flag-garbed figure the embodiment of the American spirit. The Mudhead Masks, a Cambridge based troupe, are clearly adopt at the kind of fluid hijinks and simple, obvious laugh grabbers that keep this stuff bouncing along, and David Zucker, as Dan, is a superb enough clown to carry the evening singlehandedly, much as the old entertainer might have done. His command of face and voice and body are spellbinding...
Wesleyan University this weekend became the first major university to announce publicly a shift in financial aid policy because of costs, when its trustees voted unanimously to adopt a policy of rejecting some applicants who cannot pay full tuition...
...burden of loan and jobs is becoming intolerable, or that Harvard's resources simply cannot stretch enough to continue funding all accepted applicants, officials will have to begin discussing whether to admit some applicants without assurance of financial aid consider applicants financial situation when making admissions decisions of adopt some kind of compromise among these options Jewett said...
...unfair: Mailer had had the courage to sponsor a talented pariah, and then something in Abbott's transition from prison went disastrously wrong. Mailer was personally aggrieved and pained, not only for Abbott but for Abbott's victim. It is true that certain writers adopt convicts: criminals, sinister, romantic and stupid as sharks, become the executive arms of intellectuals' violent fantasies. For some reason, intellectuals rarely understand that they are being conned: convicts are geniuses of ingratiation. Still, Mailer after all was not promoting a killer but a prose stylist and what he judged...