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...establish an Ethnic Studies department is merely to allow the approach through the "critical lens" of race to stand equal to those which have been taught for years in traditional departments. Ethnic Studies would be another offering in the curriculum--it does not force Choi or anyone else to adopt that critical lens of race which he finds so offensive...
That, at least, is the dramatic intent. Clinton's design will be elaborate, the policies intricately machined. The President aimed to ask Congress to adopt a package that would raise a variety of taxes (on energy, high salaries and corporations), cut a handful of others (on investments in new businesses and on the working poor), slash spending on some fronts while adding new money for job training and road building, for example...
Citing statistics that traced economic and political changes, Wilson said the nation is at a "major cross-roads" and must be willing to adopt new methods and priorities for the advancement of science...
...government has tacitly acknowledged the French achievement by awarding researchers at M.I.T. $24 million to adopt Cohen's techniques. But the American effort has yet to emulate the most admirable aspect of the French effort: Cohen intends to donate his gene map to the United Nations as a gift to the world, thereby ensuring all scientists unrestricted access to the vital data. Cohen feels he owes this to the public because his work has been largely funded by public donations to a muscular-dystrophy telethon...
This attitude on the part of college officials has sometimes led to strained relations with RUS, which has histor- ically been more openly political. Over thepast 20 years RUS has, for instance, repeatedlydemanded that Radcliffe adopt stances againstfinal clubs and in favor of a women's center, onlyto meet with polite administrative resistance...