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Harvard should learn a lesson from UMass and open itself to approaches to economics which differ from...
...freezing weather, ice storms and incessant rain. Record floods turned vast stretches of rich loam into great bogs of mud, delaying or barring altogether the planting of spring crops. The weather has at last turned bright, and farmers are racing to make up for lost time. But opinions now differ as to whether enough corn and other crops will be produced this year to boost supplies and hold down soaring food prices...
Sister Nickie recalls that Vince's main concern in life was to be differ ent. When all the other kids were wearing jeans and T shirts to school, he sported a jacket and tie. "Pretty soon everybody else started dressing up, and when that happened, he started dressing down," she says. "With a personality like that, you had to know he was going to do something to get himself out in front...
Prof. Bell and other black separatists among Negro faculty have a right to differ with me, but it is ridiculous to characterize my view as a "vicious slande," of black students. There is nothing slanderous in the statement that bad admissions decisions by Harvard's admissions office is partly responsible for the poor intellectual and academic performance of black students. This is simply a question of fact, and Prof. Bell cannot remove it by rhetorical outbursts...
...describes not an abstract society of the future, but conditions here and now. He claims it is "a well-established fact that the upper and lower classes differ in psychological makeup, for example in their measured intelligence," and that "technology...may be...wiping out those intellectually simple jobs that used to occupy the less-endowed portion of the population." This says that unemployment can be explained by the innate inability of the poor to master new jobs...