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Bush moved in that direction last week when he named Congressman Jack Kemp to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Kemp has long sought to bring minorities into the G.O.P. by promoting economic opportunity in inner cities. But an unforeseen flap over abortion almost sabotaged Bush's most important gesture to blacks: the appointment of Dr. Louis W. Sullivan to be Secretary of Health and Human Services and the first black member of the new Cabinet...
...against the recommendation of nearly every other senior Administration adviser. But he happened to be the U.S. Secretary of State and the most powerfully determined opponent to a U.S. appearance by P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat. George Shultz proudly takes -- and certainly deserves -- full credit for the Great Visa Flap...
While the President last week pooh-poohed the flap as a "cheap political shot," some conservatives have been critical. Wrote New York Times columnist William Safire: "For a public official's wife to be 'on the take' is wrong, plain and simple." After TIME's initial inquiries about the First Lady's clothes, a number of outfits that had been lent to Nancy Reagan were quietly returned to their owners...
...course, the more complicated issue is what the "Jazz" flap reveals about Harvard's Core curriculum. Supposedly, the Core curriculum depends upon specially crafted classes, designed to introduce non-concentrators not simply to a given body of knowledge, but rather to the methodolgy of a particular field...
...resolve the jazz flap, an administration--that so often is indifferent and seemingly impervious to change--acted quickly. Of course, the excitement resulting from the resolution of the problem is testimony to the low expectations most Harvard students have come to have toward the administration. Hopefully, the University will use this action as an example for quickly resolving future mix-ups and responding to students concerns...