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...most recent affirmative action policy requires the Review to consider throughout the selection process an applicant's optional personal statement on the "economic", societal of educational obstacles he has overcome. The membership committee will now strive to choose a crop of incoming editors that "significantly represents historically underrepresented groups in the student body "But at the same time, the Review has warned the committee, it should choose only those applicants who "can adequately perform Review work" and only minority applicants with grades "close to" those of other students. Many professors appreciate those new caveats...
...crop of mature mothers is working harder to achieve that goal. The price, however, is sometimes steep. "At work, you think of the children you've left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself: your heart is rent." A career woman named Golda Meir confessed that in 1973, and it still applies today...
Women were included in the first plans, but in the year of reconsideration five women made the Review through the existing writing competition, up from one the year before. Buoyed by that "bumper crop," women students passed word to the editors that they no longer wanted to be part of the affirmative action program. They feared it would only stigmatize those women who did make...
...France powered by nuclear energy--it already is more dependent on its reactors than any other country except Switzerland--and natural gas is at most a stepping stone toward the realization of that goal. Despite the go-slow policies of the Socialists, by the late 1990s the new crop of reactors will make the Soviet gas virtually superfluous...
...fortunes of both Harvard and number one Hulbert carried over into the second match of the day led by freshmen in the top two slots (like Harvard). Penn's youth prevailed in the opening rounds as Alicia McConnell ("the brightest star in this year's freshman crop" according to Crimson coach Jack Barnaby) knocked out Hulbert, 15-6, 15-18, 15-10, 15-10, and Karen Kelso Ko'd Staley in similar fashion...