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December 2, 1974: Derrick A. Rall Jr., the only black professor at Harvard Law School, threatens to resign if HLS does not substantially increase efforts to hire minority faculty...
...Denver. A few months ago, John Dolan, DU's vice chancellor of enrollment, asked his team to test the application process by literally applying to school. The 10 admissions officers and Dolan took the SAT and submitted their high school grades and activities. Their first conclusion: "We'd never hire anyone to work here on just a great resume," says Dolan. "We'd still want to talk to them." Inspired by the experience, Dolan, his staff and 125 alumni this fall will interview each of the expected 5,000 applicants for the class of 2006. "We think...
...spring 1951, the College replaced maids with student porters. Maids formerly had made students' beds and cleaned rooms six days a week. Now, following M.I.T.'s lead, the College would hire students to do the work in return for reduced room rents...
...They say I'm a dictator," he said, drawing laughter and applause from the adoring crowd, which listened for three hours as he railed against the prefectural legislators, the $13 million of debt the Nagano government has piled up, the dam projects and his attempts to hire more teachers and provide more services for the handicapped. Then he told a story about a bakery run by mentally disabled entrepreneurs. The story provoked tears?though a whole lot were from Tanaka himself...
...thousands of cases Gilchrist touched between 1980 and 1993, starting with 12 in which death sentences were handed down. But in another 11 of her cases, the defendants have already been put to death. The state is giving the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System $725,000 to hire two attorneys and conduct DNA testing of any evidence analyzed by Gilchrist that led to a conviction. A preliminary FBI study of eight cases found that in at least five, she had made outright errors or overstepped "the acceptable limits of forensic science." Gilchrist got convictions by matching hair samples with a certainty...