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...discomfiture of many traditional civil rights advocates, Rita Greenwald Clancy was inspecting cadavers alongside 102 other freshman medical students at the University of California, Davis, last week. Admitted to the medical school through a federal court order, Clancy, 22, had managed to exploit one of the main arguments used to justify affirmative-action programs for minority job and school applicants...
...round about how Annette and Jeff were aiming to follow a bit too closely in Brother Billy's enterprising footsteps. Last week the project was quietly dropped. As a member of Rosalynn's staff explained, "They didn't want to do anything that would seem to exploit the White House...
...really Turow's fault that Harvard's name carries the prestige it does, but he certainly goes out of his way to exploit it. He prefaces his book--essentially a blow-by-blow account or his first year--with his excuse, suggesting he decided to write about Harvard because it's the oldest and biggest law school (which he says makes the experience of students here exemplary of all law students in America), and, of course, because he goes here. Nonsense. One L is a paean to status symbols, a description of Turow's willing indoctrination into the country...
...Arafat resolution, which is still being drafted in Beirut, is intended to exploit President Carter's call for a Palestinian homeland last March in Clinton, Mass. At that time, Carter also demanded that the Palestinians accept, without amendment, the celebrated U.N. Resolution 242 of 1967, which sought to end Middle East hostilities by trading a return to prewar borders for Israel's right to exist within defensible boundaries. The Arafat resolution will meet Carter's injunction by explicitly accepting 242, but it will also include his very words on the Palestinian homeland. Says a P.L.O. spokesman...
Sanjay's vulnerability and Desai's wobbly government combined to inspire Mrs. Gandhi's reemergence. How she will exploit her residue of popularity remains to be seen. But last week's adulation clearly revived her legendary hauteur. When reporters asked her if she felt stronger after her meditations, she replied coolly, "I was strong already...