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...Vice Mayor Alice K. Wolf said the fact that 80 percent of the people on the waiting list for public housing are minorities probably attests to the presence of discrimination in the private housing market...
Wolfe's latest book, "The Bonfire of the Vanities," is about to enter its 27th week on the bestseller list. The novel, Wolfe's first, exposes the shallow values of a New York bond broker--and may have particular relevance to the lives of graduating seniors, said Schwalbe. The novel "talks to the conflict between social conflict and yuppie careers," she said...
...order to pick a speaker, Schwalbe said, the committee surveyed a number of seniors and compiled a list of about 45 possible candidates, which it eventually narrowed down to 10 names. While Schwalbe said the committee did encounter some difficulty scheduling a speaker, she said Wolfe was one of the committee's top choices all along...
...this is true, because I'm not a lawyer. Harvard's clubs, composed of roughly 5 percent of the undergraduate student body, could hardly be called "integral" to the Harvard experience (unless smokey poker games, billiards, beer, and occasional blacktie dinners rank high on your list of daily activities). So the gender discrimination question boils down to: Will the Harvard clubs be allowed to remain as they are, given the U.S. Constitution, Harvard's policies, and the temper of society today? Perhaps, perhaps not. It is an issue which deserves attention, however...
Still, M. Danny Wall, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which oversees FSLIC, believes that the thrift spiral is finally ending. His list of the worst-off thrifts has stabilized at 204. Moreover, S and Ls in general are starting to soak up much needed deposits again. During the first two months of this year, thrifts absorbed $10.6 billion in new deposits, compared with an outflow of $3.2 billion during that period last year...