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...Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced this week that they will refuse to verify their student status by appearing before federal immigration officials unless President Carter's order requiring such action is proved legal. The students maintain correctly that Carter's action represents a "classic case of bending the legal system to suit the prevailing mood...
...Boston, Cambridge and Harvard University Police Departments are investigating the loss. However, Saul L. Chafin, chief of the Harvard Police, said yesterday his department does not yet have any leads on the case. The Boston and Cambridge detectives working on the case were not available for comment yesterday...
Weldon L. Kennedy, assistant special agent in charge of the Boston office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), said yesterday his office is aware of the case, but is "not conducting any active investigation" at this time...
This in itself would not be a justification to exchange an innocent person for the captives, but the case is that there is a large voice claiming that the Shah should be tried according to international norms of jurisprudence. For the sake of the embassy personnel and in the interest of international law, research should be undertaken immediately to study the possibility of recognizing the legitimacy of the Iranian people's claim for a trial, and eventually the possibility of conducting a trial on neutral territory. Geneva, for instance, has the facilities for such a procedure and there the Shah...
That may be an overstatement, and a criticism of blind reliance upon tests rather than of the testing companies themselves. Most companies have long cautioned against overdependence on scores. They note, correctly, that national exams deserve credit for enhancing educational opportunities, especially in the case of talented students from lackluster schools. Even so, enough general suspicion of computerized testing organizations exists to spark the reform movement. "It used to be a little fringe group," trumpets Harvard Law Graduate Andrew Strenio, adding: "Now it is going mainstream...