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Take Harvard, for example. Byerly Hall would not be so foolhardy as to draft a secret memorandum setting ceilings on minority admissions, even if such limits were desirable. For a university which claims to educate the best of America's young with the world's most enlightened ideals to turn round and declare it denies opportunity to fully qualified individuals simply because of their race would be outrageously hypocritical. In fact, the admissions office's January 22 statement on Asian-American policy cited a 1978 Supreme Court opinion lauding Harvard as an "illuminating model" for minority admissions...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Asian-American Admissions: | 2/11/1988 | See Source »

Redmont, who is still teaching at BU, issued a memorandum to the faculty two days after Silber's speech, and stated that Silber was misrepresenting why he had left...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: B.U. President Attacks Dean's Role in Afghan Media Project | 1/22/1988 | See Source »

...response, Williams sent a memorandum to all freshman and to junior advisors, asking them to "remind their prospective of the College's drinking policy and not to encourage them to drink," according to The Record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 12/12/1987 | See Source »

...agreed in a treaty with the U.S. to give special help in cases involving organized crime. In practice, this has meant that the Swiss cooperate in tax-evasion cases if the suspect can be shown to have ties to the mob. Last month the U.S. and Switzerland signed a "memorandum of understanding" recognizing that drug traffickers and money launderers in some cases meet the definition of mobsters and are thus covered by the treaty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swiss Secrecy: Don't Bank on It | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

Switzerland eventually released some of the documents to the U.S., but bitterness over the affair helped lead to the new memorandum. In it, Switzerland agreed to speed up the legal help it offers the U.S., while Washington pledged not to use "extraterritorial power," as in Rich's case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swiss Secrecy: Don't Bank on It | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

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