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...would just like to tell you how much I appreciate your comprehensive reporting and editorials on the issues concerning the crisis in El Salvador. They are of great value considering the dearth of any reporting at all in the Big Press, and have the strength and courage to address the real problems in this new age of red-baiting...
Some argue that the only way to curb illegal immigrants is to diminish their main reason for coming: a dearth of jobs and opportunities in their own lands. Some Hispanic leaders, for example, propose that Washington help promote "twin plants" along the U.S.-Mexican border, in which raw materials are processed in the U.S. and then shipped across the border for assembly in Mexico. But even if these schemes proved possible, the U.S. would still be confronted with millions of people from other countries eager to come to the land of opportunity. Though some Americans may feel their economy...
...Company of Women lacks such an urgent plot. If Final Payments is a beautifully told and moving story. Women is simply beautifully told. But the dearth of plot is retarding, as all movement is internal. There is little dialogue--used mostly to drop one-liners--and limited action. Nowhere is Gordon s plot problem clearer than in her inability to end Women. There, breaking from the style of rest of the book, she lets her characters reveal their inner feelings in their own words. Except for one figure, her style only serves as a distraction, an afterthought like a eulogy...
Within hours of the initial complaint--filed by Bernheim on behalf of the Women's Equity Action League (WEAL), a nationwide women's group--more than 80 K-School alumni released a letter supporting WEAL. The petition labeled the school's dearth of tenured women or minorities "shocking." Implicit was their assumption that Harvard's public policy school should lead--not la in--the national campaign for genuine affirmative action...
Review members, year after year, found the dearth of minorities and women among their ranks a source of embarrassment because they viewed their selection procedures as objective and meritocratic. Under the leadership of Stuart Singer, outgoing Review president, the Review has tried to change its image in and around the Law School as an elitist group of white males...