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Harvard had its chance to break the game open when it held the Judges scoreless for a four-minute stretch early in the game. But the Crimson could muster only four points over this stretch, on jumpers by Mitchell and Ralph James (13 points...
...professor is no naif on the subject of civil rights and racial inequity in the U.S. Author of a 1975 work, Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy, Glazer long has held that quotas are too blunt an instrument to apply to discrimination...
Consider just a few measures of change. In the 1950s, women made up only 20% of college undergraduates -- in contrast to 54% today -- and two-thirds did not complete their degrees (conventional wisdom then held that an "M.R.S." was more important). As for aspirations, well, they were limited. When more than 13,000 female college graduates were asked, in the early '60s, how they defined success for themselves, the two most common answers were to be the mother of several accomplished children and to be the wife of a prominent man. In 1960, three years before Betty Friedan...
...down to district secretaries, who overnight began to sound as if they had joined the pro-democracy movement. A favorite target is Gunter Mittag, the recently sacked Politburo member in charge of the economy. Described by the newly outspoken East German press as arrogant and autocratic, Mittag is being held responsible for wrecking the economy and cooking the figures to such an extent that reformers cannot find accurate economic data with which to work. Prime Minister Hans Modrow, the moderate former Dresden party chief who himself was investigated in June by Mittag and his minions, welcomed parliament's decision...
Sullivan's critics say the real power at HHS is held by White House chief of ) staff John Sununu, who has become the Administration's point man against abortion. Sununu has been instrumental in ensuring that important HHS posts have been filled by pro-life candidates. After bumping against White House questioning about their abortion views, several of Sullivan's job nominees have withdrawn their names from consideration. Says a candidate who was considered too liberal: "It's because Sununu is resisting every nomination Sullivan makes...