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Eliot, president of Harvard from 1869 to 1909, set out to transform a college into a university, and to do this he sought to attract students of diverse religions and from diverse regions of the country. But by "diversity" Eliot meant a diversity of talents, not a mere variety of backgrounds, much less proportional representation of racial groups. Diversity was subordinated to the ruling principle of academic excellence and made to serve...
Although the percentage of minority students accepted is down slightly from last year, Director of Undergraduate Minority Recruiting Roger Banks said his staff worked hard to attract minority applicants...
...lecture tour. "This is such a cabaret," says TIME's Tadeusz Kucharski from Warsaw. "He's just trying to demonstrate that the ruling people haven't yet solved the problem of former presidents and their pensions. He will pretend to work because he wants to attract attention." Kucharski points out that the situation is mostly Walesa's fault. "During his five years in office Walesa never addressed the issue of pensions. He didn't do it because he was 100 percent sure that he would be reelected." In January, a group of deputies drafted a law giving former presidents half...
...cities that benefit most from casinos are those that can attract enough out-of-towners so that the regressive losses, and attendant social problems, fall less heavily on their own citizens. In Las Vegas, Southern California tourists bear the burden, while the riverboat in Council Bluffs, Iowa, lives off bettors from Omaha, Nebraska. And although most Illinois casinos attract few out-of-staters, East St. Louis is an exception. On two recent nights some 70% of the Casino Queen's patrons were white, many of them from across the river in Missouri. "Casino gambling is a shell game," explains Earl...
...chosen Lewistown at the request of federal officials who ordered them to stay away from "Justus Township," the Freeman's 960-acre wheat farm. The FBI today also rejected white separatist Randy Weaver's offer to mediate an end to the standoff, saying he was incendiary and could attract hordes of media and militia members. FBI agents surrounded the compound March 25, when two Freemen leaders were arrested. Since then, three others have been taken into custody. One member of the group, Richard E. Clark, surrendered to federal authorities on Saturday and will be arraigned Monday on charges of fraud...