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...payments go to women who gave birth as teenagers. Pro-lifers maintain that the dimensions of the problem would be smaller than many fear, because banning abortion would encourage people to be more cautious about sex. "Once the law tells us that abortion is illegal, there will be far fewer pregnancies to abort," insists Dr. John Willke, president of the National Right to Life Committee...
Dawson said one explanation for the trend towards upper-income families is that there are fewer social pressures on a student from that environment. "It's a lot easier to find the suburban upper-middle-class minority student," he explained...
...representation at Harvard, for example, has yet to surpass significantly a level reached 20 years ago--the first year Harvard began recruiting efforts. Yet the representation of Black students here still falls below the 12.4 percent representation in the population at large. Hispanic students too come to Harvard in fewer numbers than their 7.5 percent nationwide representation...
While no one ignores the fact that fewer minority students applied this year than last (coinciding with a decrease of the applicant pool as a whole), in the final analysis the results ought to be judged according to a central principle of affirmative action. That is, under-represented minorities should be admitted at levels that address fundamental or historical social inequities. At Harvard, which stands as an educator of national stature, such levels arguably should be equal to or even higher than representation reached by minority groups nationwide...
This season, Dermody has allowed only 15 league goals in five games. If Dartmouth scores fewer than three goals today, Harvard will break another Ivy record--for fewest goals allowed in a season, set by Penn...