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...admissions quotas they believe leading universities have established. "If you are an Asian-American student applying to Harvard, you have the lowest chance of getting in," says Peter Kiang, who teaches Asian-American studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. John Bunzel, a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank at Stanford, says he has found indications that Stanford, Harvard, Princeton and Brown discriminate against Asian Americans in their admissions policy...
...occasions -- nearly 20% of the total -- many times for purely political reasons. The first rejection involved John Rutledge, George Washington's choice for Chief Justice, turned down because of his opposition to the Jay Treaty with Britain. John Parker, a federal judge nominated in 1930 by Herbert Hoover, was rejected by the Senate because of an antilabor ruling on the bench -- but also for some racist remarks made during a campaign for Governor of North Carolina. When Justice Abe Fortas was nominated as Chief Justice, his liberal decisions prompted Thurmond and others to block his elevation...
...consistently managed to persuade the other Fed governors to go along with tough and often unpopular policies. His skills with the board, the public and politicians inspired Economist Jack Albertine, vice chairman of Chicago-based Farley Industries, to call Volcker the "shrewdest bureaucrat in Washington since J. Edgar Hoover...
...inches of snow and slush for a shuttle bus ride? Who wants to see Division I football in his own backyard when he could be at Harvard watching the national championship chess team quash lesser rivals? Who wants to go to a school whose most famous alumnus is Herbert Hoover...
...trend of progressivism, far from being an invention of the New Deal, was merely brought further by Roosevelt after a start under the Hoover administration....Governor Landon has given no indication that he desires to abandon the reconstructive measures of Roosevelt. His views on social security, farm aid, conservation of resources, and relief all bear the stamp of a man devoted to the needs of the people. His lieutenants are singularly suited to carry forth a progressive program; they would well merit the name "brain trust," were that name not in such ill repute. And who would not prefer William...