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Jewett admits with a slightly nervous laugh that you could interpret this trend as a hidden quota system. "I cannot disprove it except by having a bad year," he says, "and I hope we'll never have to prove it that way." Still, some critcism has come on the heels of the Bakke case which contends that Harvard does indeed strive for uniformity of "diversity." Justice Harry A. Blackmun, quoted in an article in "New Republic" by Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, says, "under a program such as Harvard's one may accomplish covertly what Davis concedes it does...
...clear that, when they finally met, Begin and Sadat neither liked nor understood each other. Right from the beginning the misunderstandings were apparent. Sadat, for example, said in Jerusalem that the last Israeli settlement in the Sinai should determine the Israeli border of the buffer zone. The Begin government interpreted this, or chose to interpret it, as a green light to expand the Sinai settlements before a peace agreement had been concluded. When the Israelis began leveling land for enlarging the settlements last January, Sadat became furious at what he considered bad faith on Begin's part. The Israeli...
...mankind an indiscriminate embrace, but he could be surprisingly open in small audiences, as in a 1971 encounter with some rock musicians. "We are aware of the values you seek," he told them. "Spontaneity, sincerity, liberation from certain formal and conventional restrictions, the need to be yourselves and to interpret the demands of your time...
...film's next best bit occurs when Clouseau is thought to be dead. One of his co-detectives (Herbert Lom), driven crazy by Clouseau, is asked to deliver the eulogy. He hates Clouseau so much that as he speaks his shoulders shake and his face contorts. The mourners interpret these convulsions as grief, but we know the man is giggling. Really dedicated Panther degenerates refuse to leave the theater when the lights...
...began when he agreed to a request by the ultra-Orthodox Agudat Israel Party to amend Israel's conscription laws, thereby making it easier for Orthodox Jewish women to gain exemption from the draft. Orthodox rabbis believe that women should not serve in the armed forces, since they interpret the prohibition against men's clothing to include the khaki trousers and the UZI submachine guns issued to Israel's female conscripts. The law now requires that women serve for two years and men for three, beginning...