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Harvard's affirmative action efforts have failed to meet what some consider already modest goals, according to the University's report on affirmative action. Later this month, President Neil L. Rudenstine will present a long-term plan to improve the recruitment of minorities and women. Meanwhile it appears that, next to comparable institutions, Harvard...
...Warner lot in Burbank, the other up the coast in Carmel. His friends there have included a schoolteacher, a former bar owner and an itinerant barber. Film is rarely a topic of conversation. Carmel residents protect his privacy, even those who disagreed with his policies -- such as a modest liberalization of the zoning laws -- when he was mayor...
There are certain species of athletes. There are the talented, histrionic media-animals (the Deion Sanders/Keith Elias breed, given to uncontrollable yapping) and the rara avis. the gifted, modest, controlled class of athlete...
...result of these findings, more centers may gear up to perform angioplasty, which is now offered in only 18% of U.S. hospitals. Some doctors caution, however, that the long-term gains are too modest to justify the huge expense of expanding staff and facilities at every hospital...
...Teddy's a very modest person," Tomassoni said. "He didn't make much...