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WHEN Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence created the high-profile committee on affirmative action last spring and tapped Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53 to chair it, many students and faculty members looked to it to decisively resolve one of Harvard's stickiest problems--its failure to add minorities and women to its faculty in significant numbers...
...built in accountability for everybody--students, teachers, principals, superintendents and board members," Collins says. "We required school board members to have had at least a high school education and to attend seminars regularly to stay informed on current educational issues...
...Review's staff comprises 40 second-year and 40 third-year students, among which there is a high number of Harvard College graduates. There are "about 22 or so" College alumni, said...
...element in Latin American politics, one that crosses even the sharpest of class boundaries. One of the last countries in the hemisphere to achieve independence from the Spanish, Cuba remained under American political protectorateship until 1948. The final years of the Batista dictatorship were marked by high-volume American investment and advice...
...United States is facing a similar crisis in El Salvador. Last year American aid to El Salvador doubled that nation's budget. And extraordinarily generous support for the Salvadoran military, besides encouraging corruption and removing any high-level army incentive to end the war, sends a message to all Salvadorans--left, center and right--that El Salvador is not in charge of its own policies...