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...Crimson article.“I don’t really remember much about the discussions that went on about that issue,” says Henry Rosovsky, then dean of the Faculty. “I don’t think it was a big issue [on campus]. Except for the gay rights groups....They really wanted it.”“That may have been more of a blow for others more naïve than I,” Schatz says.TWENTY-FIVE YEARS LATERA similar bill was eventually passed by the Faculty in 1985, before...
Professional schools have long been home to the most contentious affirmative action battles, and Harvard’s are no exception. But at Harvard Law School, disputes about affirmative action have focused less on admissions and more on the prestigious Harvard Law Review, the legal periodical whose editorships are often tickets to judicial clerkships and professorships.In 1981, all 80-some editors except one were white, and it would be another decade before the Review elected its first black president, Sen. Barack H. Obama, (D-Ill.) Fewer than a dozen of the editors on the Review were women, although Susan...
...young boy standing next to him. He killed the rebel without hurting the boy. On a search-and-destroy mission in Fallujah, Miguel and Kilo Company were on a house-to-house search for insurgents and came across children sleeping next to their parents, says Martin, "except for this one guy who was working on something in the corner. My brother ordered him to turn around and put his hands up. The man turned and said, 'No, mister, no,' but he kept reaching behind him. So my brother shot him. It turns out that the man was reaching...
...DRIVER’S SEATWhile a number of authorities proposed solutions to the space crunch, no one seemed willing to lead the charge, and a consensus was hard to come by. Patrick F. Ready, the chief of police for Cambridge, wanted to ban all cars in the College except those belonging to seniors and faculty. Others, including mayor John J. Foley, looked to alternate side of the street parking as the solution. Only City Manager John J. Curry ’19 knew exactly what to do: “Tear down the Fly Club’s back yard...
...also applied to the CIA. And guess what? I was rejected.” Though the Soviets claimed that the CIA routinely used Western journalists in covert activities, Daniloff stresses that his early desire to join the intelligence agency was unrelated to his work as a reporter. Except that it was Daniloff’s interest in government service that took him on a fateful trip down a street in Washington. He saw a sign for The Washington Post, went inside, took a typing test, and was hired as a copy boy. But despite a distinguished career in which...