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First, the statement attributed to me suggesting a dearth of talented minority students is a complete misrepresentation. My point was simply this: unless one lives in Alan Dershowitz's world, it must be patently obvious, for all the well documented sociological and economic reasons, that the minority pool of applicants for highly competitive colleges will be a relatively smaller one than the comparable majority pool. No amount of wishful thinking can alter the effects of the pervasive disadvantages which minority students face at all levels of their education. While there is considerable room to improve the efficacy of identifying...
...relating specific issues and ideas to universal concepts, Wald intellectually transcends the boundary between science and politics. He juxtaposes democracy with natural selection and judges scientific work on its moral and political implications. Noting the dearth of scientist-activists, he says without apology, "The thing that gets me into those political issues is science. You cannot study nature as it goes down the drain...
...most other major economies remain plagued by inflation, stagnation, a dearth of investment capital and monetary imbalances caused largely by momentous outflows of funds to member states of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to cover fuel bills. A new index of "composite economic performance" compiled by the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research, combining such measures as gross national income, output, sales and employment, shows that the summit seven as a group have largely regained their pre-recession heights of economic activity (see chart following page). But the progress is erratic. Except for the U.S., only Italy has surpassed...
Peirce has only gradually discovered his vocation. After getting his B.A. from Princeton and studying international relations at Harvard, he became a Congressman's aide, then political editor of Washington's Congressional Quarterly. There he was struck by the dearth of information on state and local problems. He decided that John Gunther's Inside U.S.A. (1947) should be updated, asked Gunther if he might help him do the job and instead received the author's blessing to take on the project alone. The result: seven books on regions of the U.S., beginning with The Megastates...
...expectation dissolves quickly. Studies by the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation show that one of the biggest disappointments freshmen contend with is the dearth of direct contact with the Faculty. The report of the Task Force on Pedagogical Improvement cites a recent study which shows that while 58 per cent of Harvard undergraduates expect "the chance to learn from great teachers" before they come here, only about 17 per cent feel that this expectation is realized. A recent survey conducted by the Daily Princetonian shows only 54 per cent of Harvard freshmen claiming that the Harvard Faculty is "strongly...