Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During five shows tentatively scheduled for this week, Wapner occasionally mentions legal discussions with Dershowitz. In one, the civil libertarian is introduced in the audience...
...says that the case has helped ease the confusion a little. "Just the other day in civil procedures class we were discussing what circumstances are needed to get a class action," she says, adding that she then remembered what she had needed to file her own case...
Look at the issue again, in a subtler shade. Investigators from the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights arrive for a compliance review of Harvard admissions with a specific directive to investigate possible discrimination against Asian-Americans. Harvard has justified the rate of Asian-American admissions--consistently 80 to 90 percent that of white students--with the group's relative lack of legacy students and small number of varsity athletes, both recruitment factors at the University...
...charter and University policy, which prohibit campus groups from discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation. But underlying the council's discussion was in part the principle of education free from military influence, and in part the insistence on equality based on a historical legacy left over from a Civil Rights era a quarter century past...
...period tagged a decade of greed, which followed a "me generation" and a so-called age of permissiveness, the return of concern is encouraging. And, 25 years after the Civil Rights Act was passed, and 20 years after such politics culminated in students taking over University Hall, the tumult was refreshing...