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...says, rather than to concrete improvements for minority and women faculty. Bok's discomfort with affirmative action is well-rooted in the Harvard tradition; Harvard took three years, from 1970 to 1973, to draw up a plan for improving its hiring record that would meet the government's minimum standards. Those three years of negotiation and revision, in fact, account for much of the paperwork and expense that Bok bemoans...
Other options Pipkin said the committee will consider include requiring a minimum grade-point average in courses outside concentrations and returning to the old standard, which required that students get honors grades in two-thirds of their non-concentration letter-graded courses...
...pass sentence on Patty. The maximum-but unlikely-penalty: 35 years in prison (25 for willingly taking part in the armed robbery of a branch of the Hibernia Bank on April 15, 1974; ten for the ancillary charge of use of a firearm while committing a felony). The minimum possible sentence: simple probation...
...Levy, 29, and Editor William Broyles, 31. Levy, a Wharton School of business graduate who had practically no journalism experience before starting Texas Monthly, gave up the idea of confining a magazine to Houston or Dallas because neither city seemed likely to provide a circulation of 100,000-the minimum he felt he needed to succeed. Instead, three years ago, he started a magazine that would appeal to urban dwellers anywhere in the state. "We like to think we're writing about things that never would have been written about if we hadn't been here," says Editor...
Predictably, a minimum requirement is good understanding of English. Malin states flatly that without "100 per cent conviction that a student is fluent in English we won't take...