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...Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions,” former Princeton President William G. Bowen and former Harvard President Derek C. Bok describe the “broad aims of the admissions process” as including, “the need to assemble a class of students with a wide diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and talents.” They argue, further, that such diversity is beneficial to their student populations, and to society in general: the authors cite evidence that, between the 1976 and the 1989 college entering cohorts...
ELIZABETH BOWEN...
...diagnosed himself accurately as "almost a corpse." It is miraculous that he had the wit and energy to remember, much less to create. Welch's world is barely larger than a sickroom, but its travel books intrigued some famous tourists, including Edith Sitwell and W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bowen and E.M. Forster, who praised the author's "sensitiveness, visual and tactile." The style-struck critic Cyril Connolly described Welch's prose as ripening "like an October pear that measures every hour of sunshine against the inevitable frost...
Health and Human Services Secretary Otis Bowen insists that Medicare beneficiaries "continue to receive the best-quality care available." While HHS has received 4,700 complaints about Medicare abuse related to DRGs, he says, there is no evidence of "any systematic increase in premature discharges." Nonetheless, Bowen last month announced that upon admission to a hospital, Medicare patients will soon receive a statement explaining their rights, including the right to appeal a discharge decision...
...have taken the Georgia test, and some 12% have failed. Here too the feeling is strong that the Texas approach was misguided. Said Lester Solomon, Georgia's director of teacher assessment: "Nobody in their right mind believes that [the Texas] test can measure a teacher's performance." --By Ezra Bowen. Reported by B. Russell Leavitt/Atlanta