Word: defendents
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Last week, 14 months after his verbal confrontation with Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 and James Q. Wilson, Rosovsky again took the floor to defend affirmative action at Harvard. This time, however, his point was some what different. No longer was aggressive enforcement of affirmative action guidelines the policy of the land, the dean's annual report noted. The Justice Department of the Reagan Administration had retrenched significantly from the Carter Administration's vigorous enforcement of policies that often amounted to "race and sex-based quotas...
...President's package of and cuts, for instance, reflects his peculiarly static notion of equal opportunity, his Administration contends that the government's responsibility to defend everyone's right to attend college does not translate to a responsibility to pay for it. The evaporation of federal affirmative action codes thus represents not Administration confidence that private institutions will voluntarily seek diversity, as Rosovsky's report would suggest. Rather, it suggests a fundamentally flawed view of equality. In that version, rich and poor have equal education privileges--though the latter cannot pay-and white and Black have similarly equal rights...
...this showdown if he were even close in the polls because debates historically have worked against incumbents. Dukakis' political sense should have told him to avoid a direct confrontation four years ago. Now, as a challenger with a large lead in the polls and with no current record to defend, he is sitting in the catbird's seat...
Workouts not withstanding, the squad is hopeful as it travels to Hanover to do battle with the other Ivy luminaries. The situation facing the team is identical to the one it encountered two months ago at the Ivy Indoor Championships: Princeton looks big, strong and eager defend its title...
...subpoena before a reluctant Pentagon would allow him to appear. Jones was subdued and careful. In a barely audible voice, he said he had not meant to "imply that nuclear war was anything less than a terrible disaster." He left it to Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle to defend the Administration's seven-year, $4.2 billion civil defense plan, which calls for evacuating people from 380 high-risk centers to presumably safer nonurban "host areas." But the Armed Services Committee agreed, on a voice vote last week, to cut the proposed 80% increase in civil defense funds...