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Conflict between sympathizers of the leftwing Coalition for Civil Rights and more moderate factions at the school boiled over early last week, when the student council's executive board voted to extend the candidate filing deadline...
...executive board members, who in a nearly unprecedented emergency session voted to extend the deadline, countered that the move was fair and necessary. Second--year Law student Raul Perez, the board's administrative vice president and election commissioner, called the accusations "paranoid balderdash...
...Harvard is already recruiting the disadvantaged, why go out of the way to recruit especially minorities? Aren't all poor people created equal? Class-based recruitment and other such programs would extend sufficient opportunities to the minority (and the white) underclass; the addition of race as a factor would only help those minorities who are not economically disadvantaged...
...that argument seems to be converting some reformers. Says Sergei Stankevich, a Yeltsin adviser: "The orthodox liberal idea of letting the majority of enterprises go bankrupt and then, after we have millions of unemployed, retrain, reorganize, sell is absolute nonsense." Gerashchenko announced last month that he intends to extend loans to the wheezing dinosaurs, enabling them to pay off vast debts, and to raise part of the money by printing 350 billion to 400 billion new rubles...
Councillor Walsh moved that the Council reconsider last week's vote which guaranteed many spousal rights to unmarried domestic partners. An opponent of last week's vote, Walsh said that the council should work to extend the definition of family beyond last week's proposal...