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Threatened with a lawsuit challenging its racially-exclusive admission policies, an MIT program for high school students has had to open its ranks to non-minorities, angering many Harvard students who once attended the program...
...records--the Incas had no written language--but the Spaniards, who conquered so much of South America, kept plenty. Fifteen years ago, John Howland Rowe, an anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley, was studying the archives left by the Spaniards at Cuzco and came across a 16th century lawsuit filed by descendants of Pachacuti seeking the return of royal family lands, including a retreat called Picchu. Over the years, other researchers have dug deeper into the mystery, none deeper than Burger, a onetime student of Rowe's, and his wife Lucy Salazar, a Yale archaeologist...
Later, he worked on a lawsuit brought by 50 families of the victims of Trans World Airline Flight 800, which crashed off the coast of Long Island...
...first glance, the policy seems, at least to some degree, sensible; the idea that some students would deprive themselves of food in order to ease the financial burdens of attending Harvard is disturbing for idealists and lawsuit-wary administrators alike. And, indeed, every undergraduate who lives on campus currently has access to the same range and limitless quantities of dining hall food, regardless of their financial situations. Yet, trouble simmers beneath the surface...
...February when a coalition of men’s sports groups, including the National Wrestling Coaches Association, filed a suit claiming that Title IX had gone too far and is now discriminating against men in its attempt to bring equity for women. While the Department of Justice dismissed the lawsuit, it raised a great deal of public debate and pressured President George W. Bush to form a federal commission to examine these claims. Last month, the Commission on Opportunities in Athletics voted to allow the official use of interest surveys as a tool in enforcing Title IX as well...