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...wake of FAS's rejection of the report's spirit, the issue of Harvard's minority and women faculty hiring must return to the forefront of campus politics, and soon. The Undergraduate Council's ad hoc committee should get its act together, broaden its attack and be unabashedly militant...
...Liberal Democrats have been at the forefront of efforts to create more political pluralism within the system...
...forefront of the movement are the N.A.A.C. and ALMA (Adoptees Liberty Movement Association), which lobby to change state laws protecting the confidentiality of adoption records. Three states -- Alabama, Alaska and Kansas -- have completely open records, available to all adoptees over 18. Other states require the consent of a birth parent, the child and one or both adoptive parents before documents may be unsealed...
...would be less painful if it were an even 4% instead of 3%. Another party member said farmers were only intelligent enough to do manual work. Credit for the greatest blunder, however, went to Agriculture Minister Hisao Horinouchi, who said, "It is wrong for women to come to the forefront of politics." Pausing just long enough to take one foot out of his mouth and insert the other, Horinouchi then attacked Doi, the popular Socialist leader. "British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is an exception, but she has a husband and children," Horinouchi asserted. "Doi does not. Can such a person...
When given the opportunity to reassert America's dominance in the world economic system, Bush deferred to Japan. At the summit meeting in France of the world's seven leading industrialized countries, it was the Japanese who strode to the forefront when they announced a comprehensive aid package for Third World countries...