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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fighting inflation, everybody has to do his share. Government must curb spending, companies must hold down prices, unions must settle for smaller pay increases. That, in brief, is Jimmy Carter's three-sided strategy. For the past two months, the White House has been lecturing Congress on spending and badgering business to put a lid on prices. Last week it was labor's turn in the spotlight, and the results were not encouraging...
Powell's opinion embraces the policies of the Harvard College admissions office, as outlined in Harvard's amicus brief on the case, as "an illuminating example" of the kind of program the Court's decision points to. Harvard's policy, Powell favorably remarks, does not focus on admitting the minority candidate, but rather emphasizes the broader concept of "diversity." Indeed, nowhere in the amicus brief Harvard filed in support of U.C. Davis does the phrase "affirmative action" come into play...
According to Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University and one of the authors of Harvard's amicus brief, "Until ten years ago, diversity at Harvard simply meant an all-white student body." The change the concept of diversity has undergone since then is the product of "large forces released in our society in the late '60s," Steiner says, and he admits there is nothing down on paper to prevent Harvard from returning to its earlier concept of diversity...
...people who haven't had the opportunity to get a good education." Although the Powell opinion leans toward upholding the industrial use of quotas, it does not address the issue directly. In the opinion of Allan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law and the author of a pro-Bakke amicus brief for the American Jewish Congress and several other organizations, the Court's decision leaves open the possibility of outlawing such quotas...
...jazz fans--if you have wheels and a little money to spare. First off is the Newport Jazz Festival, which for the first time in several years is actually taking place in Newport, R.I., not New York. The nation's most famous jazz festival returns home Saturday for a brief three-day stint that will feature some of the biggest and best names in the business Among the acts, you'll be able to see Herbie Mann, Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea, Dizzy Gillespie and George Benson, with many more of equal stature waiting in the wings. Although Newport is about...