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The drill has become depressingly routine. A news story hits the evening news or one of the TV tabloid shows; then the agents and producers descend. Sometimes there is a bidding war to lock up the rights for the participants' stories. Other times, the public record -- press accounts or court...
So what can the West do to protect its interests? If that is defined as keeping Yeltsin in power, not much. Yeltsin watchers in some NATO capitals believe that he lacks a strategy for defeating his opponents, so continuing to back him may be foolhardy. In any event, Russians, not...
After the sit in, the Faculty Council at the time reaffirmed regulations for bidding "unacceptable obstructions" of University buildings. Later, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 issued a strong letter of warning to sit-in participants.
2. Supply Versus Demand. In light of recent news, it is almost unbelievable that some still insist that Harvard is not doing enough to attract members of underrepresented minorities. The Admissions Office this year implemented a "second search" specifically for Black candidates. Last month, The New York Times reported that...
Let's replace talk of diversity with talk of disadvantage, replace representation with opportunity, concentrate more on increasing the supply of qualified minority students and professors rather than bidding up the demand, admit present differences in the educational aptitudes of different groups, and, most importantly, move this whole discussion past...