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Harper wrote that he “saw a pattern” in Summers’ public remarks on women and minorities, citing his 2002 feud with former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, his comments at a Native American conference in September 2004, and his now infamous remarks on women in science in January...
DIED. ARTHUR FLETCHER, 80, adviser to G.O.P. Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and George H.W. Bush, dubbed the "father of affirmative action"; in Washington. A onetime defensive end for the Baltimore Colts and Los Angeles Rams, he developed the so-called Revised Philadelphia Plan as Nixon's Assistant Labor Secretary. Based on an earlier effort to diversify that city's racist construction unions, his was the first workable outline for affirmative action and became the blueprint for subsequent programs. He later ran the United Negro College Fund, where he coined the slogan "A mind is a terrible thing to waste...
Cassell and Halperin bought the property for $3.4 million on May 5. The business is co-owned by Cassell and partner Brooke Fletcher...
...Pollard case was the most controversial in last week's triple play because it involved an intimate U.S. ally. The son of a University of Notre Dame microbiologist, Pollard attended Stanford and Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where he earned a reputation as a strongly pro-Zionist Jew. Pollard used to perplex friends at college with elaborate tales about being an officer in the MOSSAD, Israel's version...
...Mogadishu, Somalia, may have inflated expectations. The fact is that such methods heighten the risk to hostages. According to a 1977 study by the California-based Rand Corp., 79% of all hostage deaths in terrorist situations occur during rescues. Says Uri Ra'anan, a professor at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy: "The most difficult and risky type of operation is a rescue mission. It is the most likely to lead to loss of life...