Word: creationism
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Having conceded that the University's six-year affirmative action plan fell short of its goals for improving faculty diversity, Harvard officials last week announced the creation of a central fund to aid the appointment of tenured women and minority faculty...
...press release, President Neil L. Rudenstine said the creation of the fund is only one step toward improving Harvard's faculty diversity. The fund will help loosen the tightened financial pursestrings that can hinder new faculty appointments, Rudenstine said...
...moral necessity. Meanwhile, Clinton consulted. Dozens of members of Congress, eyeing polls that said only 30% of the public supported air strikes, rejected the Holocaust comparison for one to the Vietnam quagmire. Others disagreed. The military's top brass debated publicly whether strikes, arming the Bosnians, or the creation of "safe havens" would work -- or lead to civilian deaths and American casualties. And suddenly the Serbs announced they would reconsider Vance-Owen -- while asking for territorial concessions. But on Saturday the Administration came to a decision anyway. It will remain private until Secretary of State Warren Christopher can finish consultations...
Such a comprehensive reexamination of the undergraduate curriculum has not occurred for more than 15 years, Knowles said, since the report that spurred the creation of the Core Curriculum...
Even the Perot voters' focus on the deficit belies their hatred of politics as usual. The deficit is essentially a political issue. Unlike unemployment, declining wages or falling exports, the deficit is a total political creation: Members of Congress and the president decide how much spending and taxation the country will undertake. When Republicans refuse to raise taxes and Democrats refuse to cut spending, the deficit goes up. Economics has little to do with it (although the effects of high deficits can clearly be disastrous...