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...staff from 15 candidates to about half that number. Roz Brayton will return to lead the staff with Sandy Weissant expected to grab the number two spot. Barry Malinowski, another returner from last spring, also appears set. Fighting for the remaining positions on the staff are Tom O'Neill, Norm Walsh, Mike O'Malley and Kim Schapport...
...relevant pools from which professors at Harvard are selected is probably impossible. Each tenured appointment is thought of as filling a number of specific needs and the pool of those eligible is very difficult to estimate. The point is: Goals and targets means estimating achievement against some presumed norm, and it means dividing people up for public action into racial and ethnic categories...
...past two decades, the life expectancy of the Indian has jumped from 44 years to 63.5 years. But that is still seven years short of the national average. The rates of both alcoholism and suicide among Indians, including many teenagers, are almost twice the national norm. On the reservation, family income averages $1,500, and off it about $3,000. Nationwide, the unemployment figure hovers around...
...after skirting an all-black dining table, is the assumption that black students are at fault, that they are either afraid of contact with whites, or worse, that the blacks are racists in reverse. Separatist black behavior is seen as somehow aberrant, as a puzzling deviation from a harmonious norm...
...biverse, but not a universe as we do." Yet even this much scholarly relativism is indigestible for many people who like to reassure themselves that there is only one world and that the "validity" of a culture's interpretations can and should be measured only against this norm. Any myth, they would say, can conveniently be seen as an embryonic form of what the West accepts as linear history; a Hopi rain dance is merely