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...Vietnamese law at the Law School's East Asian Legal Studies program and plans to begin studying for a master's degree at the Law School next fall. They would never think of appointing someone from this background" to an academic position, he says, adding, "A scholar must fend for himself and find a position elsewhere...
...families, the Radcliffe women must pay for their families and events on an individual basis bringing the total cost for a couple attending all the events to $240.50. And while tens of counselors take care of the Harvard offspring in a mini-summer camp, the Radcliffe alumnae children must fend for themselves...
Ever since he was Governor of California, Ronald Reagan has had to fend off charges that he is insensitive to black concerns. In 1980 his problems with blacks were evident at the polls: he captured only about 9% of their vote. Events last week put him on the defensive again and revived talk that Reagan strategists have written off the black vote in 1984. First, in an embarrassing rebuff to the Administration, the Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 that racially discriminatory private schools are ineligible for federal tax-exempt status. Then, the next day, Reagan replaced three members...
...long and complex battle traces back to the new environmental mood of the 1960s, when the National Park Service decreed that its holdings be kept as natural as possible and the animals be left to fend for themselves. Old dump sites, where the bears had long fed, were abruptly closed. Hotelkeepers were no longer allowed to put food out to attract bears for the amusement of guests. Well meant as it was, however, the new policy had unintended consequences. The bears began looking for food not only in campgrounds but outside the parks as well. They picked off sheep...
Schneider said the Administration could live with the conditions. He contended that the Salvadoran government could engage in talks but still fend off the guerrillas' previously stated demands to reorganize the government to include them, in effect canceling the results of last year's elections, in which they had refused to participate. The Administration has backed the government of Alvaro Alfredo Magafta Borja in its resistance to such "power sharing," and has suggested limiting any dialogue to a discussion of the ground rules under which both sides could participate in elections...