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...admissions official met with members of the Asian-American Assocation (AAA) to reassure them that, despite reports that Asian-American students consistently had the lowest admit rates of any ethnic group at Harvard while having the highest SAT scores, a quota designed to lower their numbers did not exist. The difference between the rates of admission between Asian and white students was chalked up to preferences for legacy and recruited athletes, two categories that are filled almost entirely by white students. Despite the lower rate of admission—The Crimson reported that for the Class of 1995, Asians were...
...feeling the constraints of his small army, even sent a proclamation to black recruiters, saying, “Through a mistaken policy, you have heretofore been deprived of a participation in the glorious struggle for national rights in which your country is engaged—this no longer shall exist. As sons of freedom you are now called upon to defend your most inestimable blessing...
...industry blackballed her. She was, she later recalled, invisible to the stars and moguls who had courted her a few years before. "It isn't that people turn their heads not to speak to you - they don't see you.... They look right at you and you don't exist." She made her last movie - a cheapo western with a pre-Stagecoach John Wayne - in 1938, and by 1946 she had to take a $40-a-week job as a sales girl at Saks Fifth Avenue...
Cambridge Public Schools Deputy Superintendent Carolyn Turk accepted the check along with Contrucci on behalf of the schools, and said that the relationship between HPT and the school system represents the relationship that should exist between Harvard and Cambridge...
...more subdued than Tel Aviv's. Organizer Canetti says she asked Tel Aviv's participants to tone down their sexy costumes. "We're not having floats or naked men flashing their asses," she says. "We just want to tell people, hey, we're here. We have a right to exist...