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Fitzsimmons said recruiting efforts by undergraduates and direct mailings by the Admissions Office especially help explain the greater ethnic diversity in this year's group of applicants. The number of Asian-American candidates increased by 11 percent, Black applicants by 7.4 percent and Latino candidates by 2.5 percent, Fitzsimmons said...
...trouble with such statements, even if they could be proved accurate, is they explain far too little. Of course, Saddam, like everyone else, has been shaped by nature and nurture, genetic predispositions plus the conditions of the world around him. The reason so many in the West find him baffling is an unwillingness or an inability to understand what those conditions were...
Reformers had been incensed by the permission for the joint patrols -- and even armored vehicles -- to control "mass actions by citizens" and "social- political activities." Their anger led Pugo to explain that the reference was not to "rallies" but to "hooliganism and other criminal offenses and % nothing else." Pugo also said that each republic had the right to decide whether it wanted the army to join forces with local police. Taking him at his word, the Baltic republics and Georgia, Armenia and Moldavia promptly turned down the offer, and the Russian Federation called on Gorbachev to suspend the entire decree...
Katharine Hepburn once remarked that the secret to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' success was that he gave her class while she gave him sex appeal. Hepburn's equation helps explain the long and awkward tango between Hollywood and Washington. To Washington, Hollywood offered glamour; to Hollywood, Washington provided substance, or at least the illusion...
...heightened the scrutiny. Pan American World Airways banned all passengers with Iraqi passports, including legal residents of the U.S., from its flights. At airports, Arabs are intercepted by police, frisked and kept waiting for hours. The questions, says Boston attorney Susan Akram, are mostly insulting. "Police explain they are interrogating people for their own protection. Arab Americans feel an obligation to respond. Then the questions land. 'Do you know any terrorists? Do you know anybody who wants to blow up a federal building...