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Regarding the Harvard study of admissions recently reported, I present two observations and a few facts that differ from those of Robert Klitgaard, author of the preliminary report...
...Dowling Committee has considered three alternative methods of recombining those student-Faculty committees. The approaches differ in how delegates would be elected to the reborn assembly, but all three would eliminate the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) and the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL). Assembly subcommittees would assume the current functions of students on CUE and CHUL and would meet regularly with Faculty members...
...Harbor, Me., laid the groundwork with studies using mice. Attempting to transplant first tumor cells and then normal tissue, he discovered that the success of the operations depended on protein molecules on the surface of cells. These proteins, called antigens, have characteristic shapes and structures, but combinations differ from individual to individual. Snell found that the more antigens the subjects had in common, the more likely was the graft to take. Investigating further, he learned that the formation of antigens was controlled by a group of genes on a specific chromosome in a cell's nucleus. He called these...
...bank, an anti-FDR Black, and ex-gun moll, Ted Turner, Coleman Youn and others. They are not all nice people--the interview with Joan Crawford, conducted in 1963, is particularly damning, given the revelations of Mommie Dearest. Terkel just lets them talk, egomaniacs, saints and sinners. They only differ from a truly representative sample of the nation in that they are probably more interesting--hardly a grave flaw...
Outrageous and unworkable, these proposals did not reflect a monolithic Third World view; in press policy, these countries differ according to their traditions and governments. Still, for many newer nations, the urgent needs of development take precedence over the luxury of a critical press. Explains Zimbabwe Journalist Chen Chimutengwenda: "We must have planned development, and the role of the media has to be planned too. Its role must be strictly defined for maximum contribution to development. A nation in a hurry to develop is like a nation in a state of emergency: freedom to criticize must be restricted...