Word: departmentment
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Shrimpers do their harvesting by dragging nets up to 55 ft. wide along the ocean floor, a technique that catches much more than tiny, tasty crustaceans. Kemp's ridley sea turtles, weighing up to 100 lbs., are netted and killed so , often that the species is endangered. Two years ago...
So Byrne Professor of Administrative Law Richard B. Stewart --once a top candidate to succeed former dean James Vorenberg '49--was probably more than satisfied with the not-so-lesser Justice Department position he accepted in August, as assistant attorney general for environmental affairs.
But Stewart, a highly respected scholar, found Congress a little more friendly. His Justice Department nomination sailed through the Senate two weeks ago, with politicos on both sides supporting his "middle-of-the-road," free-market approach to environmental regulation.
The problem extends beyond the present. The lack of academic role models for underrepresented groups only guarantees the dearth of future academics, as admitted in the case of women by the Government department last month.
Look at the issue again, in a subtler shade. Investigators from the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights arrive for a compliance review of Harvard admissions with a specific directive to investigate possible discrimination against Asian-Americans. Harvard has justified the rate of Asian-American admissions--consistently 80...