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...followers tried everything their mathematical brains could think of but the Engineers' manipulations couldn't alter the plain fact that when the Harvard-MIT fencing match ended at 10:15 last night the score added up to a 15-12 victory for the Crimson...
Paul said in the future he may consider assigning the duties of the admissions subcommittee on minority students to the other subcommittees, since the medical school is the only graduate school in the University with a minority subcommittee. He said he will proceed "cautiously" in order not to alter the percentage of minority students admitted to the medical school...
Clearly, there are innumerable challenges left for the women's movement. But activists can congratulate themselves for having accomplished much in a surprisingly short time. Says Joanne Alter, a Chicago Sanitary District commissioner: "Sure, we have a long way to go. But remember, the women's movement is very young. Nine years ago, when I would talk about a woman on the Supreme Court, people would look at me as if I were crazy." No longer. Sums up Pam Faust, executive director of the California State Commission on the Status of Women: "The changes are valid and profound...
...mere general reminder to save their money. Says Cone: "What people need is more specific feed back about how much [energy] they are really using on a daily basis." Americans, in other words, must not merely be told but convinced of their self-interest before they will alter their habitual behavior even in a minor...
...American black community. For although he sympathetically argues that the black nationalism of the '60s served as a defiant response to the racial shame American blacks have suffered for two centuries, he also points out that all the posturing and celebration of blackness has done nothing to alter blacks' marginal economic position in American society. An even more dramatic charge follows: the "black power" movement was partially responsible for reviving and legitimizing ethnicity as a principle of political action, and that this weapon of politicized ethnicity is now being used against blacks. One only has to look at the alliance...