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Nearly 30% of the couples had at some time taken abuse as a sign of "love." And a number considered violence a "normal," even healthy part of a love affair. Three-quarters of those who had been involved in an assault said it did not do their relationship any harm. More than one-third felt that hitting, or being hit, actually improved their relationship...
Admissions officers now say they are not sure how much--if any--harm has been done. But they admit that the report has had some effect on Harvard's minority admissions recruiting. "We took extra pains to show that we wanted minority students here, " William R. Fitzsimmons '67, acting dean of admissions and financial aid, says. "The release of the preliminary report certainly had some effect on minority students here, and it could well have made the difference in whether some people applied...
...campus, including a disgruntled admissions office. "The great tragedy is that students here and the general public as well may erroneously believe that Professor Klitgaard's preliminary draft represents either general University opinion or even the conclusions of some individual admissions offices at Harvard. This misconception could cause severe harm to the admissions goals of the University..." a statement from the undergraduate admissions office said...
...from a bold move, however, the PATCO dismissal signifies a cowardly attempt to intimidate unions and coerce them into unwitting collusion with Reagan's questionable economic policies. By heading off labor unrest at the pass, the Republicans hope to divert attention from measures which will harm most Americans...
...just south of San Francisco. No one knows where they came from-perhaps in contaminated fruit from Hawaii. But farmers, recalling the devastating losses from past outbreaks, immediately clamored for aerial spraying with malathion, a mild garden-variety pesticide that kills off Mediterranean fruit flies while causing no apparent harm to humans. Nonetheless, California's Governor, who plans to run for the U.S. Senate next year, refused to allow what he called a rain of chemicals on residential areas. Instead, he opted for a slower and more laborious tactic: spraying individual trees from the ground, stripping them of fruit...