Word: bumpings
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...undergraduates until next spring, minority applications to elite universities such as Berkeley and UCLA are already dropping--while black enrollment is up at second-tier campuses like San Diego and Riverside. This suggests that the new policy won't shut minorities out of the system so much as bump them down to less prestigious schools in a "cascade effect" that will leave only the most competitive campuses overwhelmingly white and Asian. Connerly calls this a "self-correcting policy" that sends black undergraduates to colleges where they can best compete. But his point has been lost in the angry din being...
Patricia L. Larash '97, a member of the Core Review Committee (CRC), said her committee was trying to make Harvard the best possible in the "absolute sense and not the comparative sense. If [the committee's work] happens to bump up our ratings, then that's great," Larash said...
Although the two buildings are relatively close, Fineday says that she and her older daughter never bump into each other...
These young women are role models of self-possession; yet as they bump up against the untidy problems of adolescence each week, they also resemble the kids you might find flocking around a CK counter on a Saturday afternoon. Moesha may work at setting up a trip to Africa to research her heritage, but she also has a weakness for vinyl pants; Sabrina (Melissa Joan Hart) idolizes Annie Leibovitz but loves to dress like Audrey Hepburn; and though Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) may be great at offing vampires, she still cares deeply about making the cheerleading squad...
...near perpetuity, marrying and remarrying, having second and third families, with rarely a raised eyebrow about their right to do so. For men who have a late child, there's a nudge and a wink from your pals, a spread in People if you're Clint Eastwood, and a bump in the polls if you're Strom Thurmond. A trophy kid is so common among the '90s tycoons, you'd think it was a corporate perk, like stock options. Meanwhile, a woman's peak childbearing years coincide precisely with her peak career-building years. Try having a baby...