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...increasingly bitter fights began over who would get the increasingly precious slots, especially at the university's flagship schools, Berkeley and UCLA. During the late '80s and early '90s, Berkeley admitted half of its freshman class purely by a numerical formula in which SAT scores were the most important element. Because of the substantial gap among the races on the SAT, the schools could maintain a substantial minority presence only by explicitly setting test scores aside - which led to a revolt, culminating in a successful state ballot initiative against affirmative action. Surely Atkinson proposed abolishing the sat in the hope...
...temporary nature of the interim government has created an element of instability at the institute...
...Richard Nixon helped cost him his re-election. But while Johnson and Ford paid a price in their time, history has also found larger purposes in those decisions. Even the elder Bush's Christmas 1992 pardon of Caspar Weinberger after the Iran-contra scandal--which had a self-serving element, since a trial might have focused new attention on Bush's role--found a larger rationale. Those earlier pardons "were attempts to put an escapade behind the country, to heal the wound, to bring the country together," says Chicago-Kent College of Law professor Harold Krent. "This is a controversy...
...very least, it seems like there's more at work here than simple greed. There may be a thrill-seeking element to this, the fact that he was as bold as he was, and as sloppy, but I'd love to see what else an expert could deduce from reading this correspondence...
...heritage. The Greek site, Academe, was an Athenian public garden where philosophers met their students to discuss among the olive trees. Had he felt the symbolic weight of the future academic world on his shoulders, Plato could hardly have chosen a better spot. Among trees, Nature is in its element; the connection is to a world innocent of human sullying, whose rules are loftier and more immediate than those of cities...