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Never before have I felt compelled to write to a newspaper in reaction to an article published therein. But after reading Dante Ramos's "Confessions of an Affirmative Action Maybe" (January 25) I felt that I had to respond. I, too, am Asian-American--Chinese-American to be exact--and I, too, come from a comfortable upper-middle-class background. I, too, agree with affirmative action in principle. And I, too, worry at times about its application. But this letter has little to do with affirmative action itself. It has to do with Ramos's tacit assertion that Asian-Americans...
...objects of intimacy reverberate through all the stories a hand ruffling hair, a rose in a lapel, a certain turn of phrase. The final effect is like looking at multiple exposures of a photograph, or into a glorious colored kaleidescope. Although Martin and John never tells us the exact details of these characters' lives, it gives a finely observed portrait of the way those lives feel...
Less controversial was the proposal that terrestrial defenders should know the exact nature of their target before acting. Responding early to a worrisome asteroid, they would send a "precursor mission," an instrumented spacecraft, to fly by or orbit the object and determine its size, shape and composition. One such "practice" mission, code-named Clementine, has already been budgeted by the Defense Department in coordination with NASA. It will fly an instrument package past the approaching asteroid Geographos in 1994 to test the kind of sensors and navigational devices that someday may be needed to help cope with a real threat...
...point was not that participation is dwindling, or even that the sum total of Harvard's expenditures on athletics is too small. We were more concerned about the inequalities that coaches and athletes cite in the disbursement of those funds, and about the fact that the exact figures are kept secret...
...That's totally a Harvard issue," Jacoby says,but adds, "I don't know the exact numbers but ifthere are 500 Women's Studies programs across thecountry, 490 are programs or committees ratherthan full-fledged departments. The advantage ofhaving it as a committee is that it means that allthe faculty also have a base in a department...