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...details are available at 267-9300, ext. 340. At Berklee Recital Hall, 1140 Boyleston Street, Boston, Marla Prince leads a vocal ensemble tonight at 7:30 pm. Info about the free concert is at 266-1400. Also, at the University, sopranos Marguerite Coughlin and Sabra Loomis and pianist Alvin Novak perform works of Liszt, Wolf, Schumann and Berg. The free concert is at Adams House Lower Common Room...
...Bakke decision, some observers feel, is an appeal to treat people as individuals rather than as members of categories. Says Syracuse University Religion Professor Michael Novak: "I think that like a great aircraft carrier, the court changed direction, and only two or three degrees of that direction are apparent now. But I hope this means an increased respect for the fact that every individual has a history, and that history has some relevance." Nathan Glazer, Harvard professor of education and author of Affirmative Discrimination, believes that "what the Supreme Court called for is human. It is asking for the kind...
Most overrated: James Reston. Most respected: David Broder. Least respected: Rowland Evans and Robert Novak. Most pretentious: Joseph Kraft. Most thoughtful: Richard Strout and John Osborne of the New Republic. Most predictable: Patrick Buchanan and Tom Wicker...
...views doesn't trouble them, since with an avoidance of judgment that they call being open-minded, editors now seek for their pages a "broad spectrum" of attitudes. But they are wary of prejudicial opinions in the guise of reporting and most often cite Evans and Novak. The Los Angeles Times (whose own Washington bureau is highly regarded by the Washington press corps) dropped Evans and Novak because, in Editor Day's words, "we want to be responsible for the authenticity of things presented as fact." In Carter country, Editor Hal Gulliver of the Atlanta Constitution dropped William...
Harvard seniors who applied to law schools this year appear to be less upset with the nature of the change than with ETS's failure to notify law schools sooner. Linda Novak '78, who took the LSATs before the modification and received a score of 730, says she thought the skewing had probably hurt her chances for admission. "I was rejected from Harvard Law School, and I had really thought I had a good chance of getting in," Novak says, adding that the admissions office was right to stand by the students it had accepted before receiving ETS's notification...