Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knew coming in that rebounding was the key," Roby said. "We weren't equal to the task...
...accuse Harvard of racial discrimination, with all the ugly baggage that accompanies the word, is grossly unfair. Harvard's primary goal is to develop talent in its many forms; it is not to develop equal admission rates. If Hsu truly wishes to help Asian American students gain entrance into Harvard, I suggest he start by taking his mind off the different acceptance rates and instead go out and absorb this campus. For until he understands what makes Harvard Harvard, his efforts to increase the Asian American acceptance rate will be futile. David...
...these minority students succeed as university students, why aren't they admitted to college in equal proportions to their white counterparts? Is every Asian-American rejected by Harvard as equally unqualified as every white? Surely the success of Asian-Americans at Harvard and at schools nationwide points to the ability of their rejected peers, at least as much as the success of white students reveals the competence of their applicant pool...
Unfortunately, our understanding of the Crisis has relied on the memoirs of Kennedy Administration advisers. No such as Robert McNamara, Dean Rusk, McGeorge Bundy, Theodore Sorenson, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., have spread the view that Kennedy's skillful use of flexible response--meeting Soviet moves with an equal amount of force--and the American superiority in conventional strength allowed the United States to prevail. But the transcripts of October 27, 1962 reveal a different picture...
...disclosure of the surveillance campaign came just days after Rochon got national attention with his story of a sustained campaign of primitive racial harassment. Decisions by both the Justice Department and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had already upheld Rochon's claims of humiliating pranks that began when he was assigned in 1983 to the FBI office in Omaha. A photograph of his children was defaced by pasting an ape's head over the face of his son. Invitations to office functions with the words "Don't come" written across them were placed in his mail slot along with other...