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...formidable opponent looms. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which bemoaned last week's decision, has targeted the parental-leave bill for defeat. Mandated benefits, many business leaders argue, impose too big a financial burden on small enterprises. The decision "spells disaster," says Don Butler, president of the Los Angeles-based Merchants and Manufacturers Association. "Larger companies can shift to fill a hole, but small ones cannot do that very easily. If I employ ten females and two or more get pregnant at one time, I might as well file for bankruptcy." Discrimination against women might increase. Many companies "just...
Perhaps a paradigm for Bok's 15th year is the outrageous dictum issued last week by Samuel C. Butler, president of the Board of Overseers, Harvard's alumni-elect governing body. In the notorious tradition of his immediate predecessor, Joan T. Bok, Butler has attempted to cut the board off from the community at large and restrict the free speech of its members. The New York lawyer issued a letter that warned overseers against allowing "leaks" to members of the press, recommending that any media inquiry receive "a no comment, followed by a polite goodbye." Though President...
Last spring, after Joan Bok's subversion of the election process of the board of overseers, President Bok initially disclaimed any role in that decision. He later admitted that he was responsible for the decision to electioneer against the pro-divestment candidates for the board. Butler's memorandum smacks of the same brand of condescension and elitism. It demonstrates that Harvard has learned nothing from its disastrous effort to stifle the minimal standards of democracy its charter upholds...
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...offense is now based on the team concept," Princeton Recievers Coach J. Michael Hodgson says. "The Wing-T is better in that it allows you many weapons. Butler and Graham were our only weapons before...