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Over the next three years. Harvard prepared three more affirmative action plans, each of which was subsequently rejected because it failed to conform to federal hiring plan guidelines. In 1974, the University finally negotiated a plan which proved acceptable to the federal government and began to strive for affirmative action targets. Its success has been limited at best...
...stern espousal of anti-Communism does conform with the Administration's foreign policy generally. Still, Lefever was not the first choice of either the State Department or the White House. His appointment was one of many made in deference to the extreme views of Republican Jesse Helms of North Carolina. Helms, alarmed by the growing anti-Lefever fever, dropped in during the second day of testimony, and finally could not contain himself. He snarled at a witness from the National Council of Churches: "You came here as an expert on human rights, and you attack a man of fine...
...coherent portrait of a flourishing culture. Aspiring writers flock to Warsaw to study under Y.L. Peretz, the dean of Yiddish literature. In the town of Vilna, the Jewish community establishes schools for the mentally retarded and for orphans. In the shtetls, the townfold engage in lively commerce and conform to the letter of well-rooted traditions. The Jews are politically animated. The heirs of the Enlightenment try to balance universal values with continuing Jewish particularism (the "problem" of minority separatism is nothing new). The Zionists send their youths to experimental farms known as kibbutzim to train them for settling...
...Conform and be dull" warns the poster in the office of Terry Deal, associate professor of Education. The maxim might provoke sarcastic giggles in the halls of Langdell or Baker, where conformity is a revered tradition, but at the Graduate School of Education, the poster seems to reflect the general sentiment of students, faculty, and administrators. From its low-key plans to shift its emphasis to the individual school and school leadership, to the clubby amblance of happy hours at its student cafe, the Ed School belies the image of the anxiety-ridden Harvard graduate school...
...music performance, and even finding a good practice piano can prove time-consuming and fruitless. These musicians--not all of whom are necessarily headed for professional careers--have two options. They either leave--as Hunt did--or they quietly re-adjust their habits, and perhaps even their ambitions, to conform to the conditions of an unashamedly academic environment...