Word: legacyism
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton is tripping over his own symbolism on race. Having spent the weekend defending his race initiatives from critics including Jesse Jackson who say it's a shallow, cosmetic approach to a serious problem, the President is stalling on supporting a bill once again making its way...
Remus follows a legacy of Radcliffe Crew alumnae who went on to national prominence. Twin sisters Mary and Betsy McCagg (both '89), Lindsay H. Burns '87, and Cecile Ulrich Tucker '91 all competed last summer in Atlanta.
Harvard was cited in a majority opinion as a model of how to obtain diversity through admissions. It is this legacy that Rudenstine has defended and Harvard has pursued.
The case, however, is considered unlikely ever to reach a jury, which would be about as capable of unraveling the programming parentage of a modern microprocessor as it would be of figuring out which Sierra mountain stream was the source of a glass of water taken from San Francisco Bay...
Even if gene screening remains inconclusive, not everyone wants to toss the tests aside. High-risk women who have had preemptive mastectomies may not regret the decision, since the procedure can mean a 91% likelihood of remaining cancer free--attractive odds in families in which female relatives have repeatedly been...