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After nearly two years of political skirmishes with the White House over racial discrimination and quotas, the Senate last week voted 95 to 5 to pass a civil rights bill. The House is expected to act quickly to adopt the compromise bill, which overrides eight Supreme Court decisions and makes it easier for employees to sue in job-bias cases. An amendment to extend civil rights protections to Senate employees caused a last-minute sideshow of debate. Under the measure, the Senate's 6,000 workers, as well as political appointees in the Executive Branch, will be able to take...
Four years later, a joint committee of members of the Corporation and its junior governing board, the Board of Overseers, recommended in a report to the University that Harvard adopt a policy of generally supporting corporate withdrawal from South Africa. Since then, the CCSR has endorsed this policy...
There are countless educational issues which need to be addressed. Schools need more money to make building repairs, buy books and attract high-quality, energetic teachers. They should adopt fairer and more comprehensive methods of evaluating students than the current system of standardized testing. Students are suffering from increased class size, and educators are realizing that traditional teaching methods are just not adequate anymore. Choice alone addresses none of these issues...
...people independent enough to survive him. Billy had first caught Dutch's attention when he juggled four balls on a railroad overpass. But he and Drew are both jugglers, really, of other people's emotions -- even those of Dutch, whose primal whims toward these two outsiders are to adopt one and have the other killed...
...treaty text of more than 1,000 pages includes such details as how many trucks can transit Austria and how many cod can be taken off Norway. In general, it requires EFTA to adopt most E.C. commercial practices, paving the way for a near doubling in the Community's size by the year 2000. EFTA countries can still maintain their own farm policies. Disputes, and there surely will be some, will be adjudicated by an independent joint court...