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...Derek E. Karchner, a spokesperson for Pitts, says such letters can have enormous impact on situations like Okhotin?...
...will outlaw mandatory retirement ages, end ageist job advertising, and allow Britons the choice of working until they are 70. The government claims the ban will effectively boost the number of skilled workers. But trade unions suspect a different motive. "People don't want to work longer," says Derek Simpson, general secretary of the Amicus union, "but the deepening pensions crisis means they don't have any choice." Under the new rules, dismissal on age grounds will only be permissible if the employer can show just cause. Employers' groups will be keeping a close watch. "We do not want...
...done nothing, either, for the unity of a church proud of its tolerance and diversity. The argument has set bishop against bishop, and ranged the more conservative churches in the developing world against the liberal ones in the West. "There will be a lot more bad blood," predicts Derek Rawcliffe, 82, who in 1995 became the second retired Anglican bishop to admit to being gay. "It will take years to work out." In the diocese of Oxford, 80 members of the clergy begged Harries to withdraw John's appointment. Nationwide, eight English bishops publicly endorsed the gay bishop-elect while...
...admissions decisions, Powell cited Harvard’s policies as a model in Bakke. O’Connor explicitly echoed Powell on this point, referring multiple times to the “Harvard plan” as ideal. She also cited a book co-authored by former University President Derek C. Bok and a study on affirmative action by Gary Orfield, who is the founding co-director of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard, and Harvard research assistant Michal Kurlaender...
Lowell’s reforms, which were the predecessors of the distribution requirements and the Core curriculum that would follow later in the century under University Presidents James B. Conant ’14 and Derek C. Bok, required Harvard students to focus a minimum of six of their required 18 courses on one division (their concentration) while also taking at least six courses outside this primary field...