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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, the daily death toll from drug-related violence in the nation's major cities is reaching numbing proportions. The number of drug-related murders in the nation's capital has averaged well over one a day so far this year. The figures in New York City, Los Angeles and Detroit reveal that these cities are not far behind. Thousands of babies are now being born with severe brain damage because their mothers are addicted to crack...
...Kennedy School's Institute of Politics was briefly interrupted long enough for me, as President of the National Congress of Black Faculty, to chair our national meeting in Washington, D.C. The delegates there applauded the many initiatives by colleges and universities around the country to increase the number of African-American faculty members...
...national import with respect to the issue of faculty diversity. To some extent, this view is similar to that of those who have struggled so mightily for the Harvard Corporation to divest its stock in companies that are in South Africa. However, in the case of hiring a fair number of Black faculty, there cannot be an analogous counter-argument suggesting that an immediate loss would accrue to the University in any regard--which makes the situation all the more puzzling. Some faculty have tried lamely to suggest that affirmative action breeds Black dependence upon whites, but this smacks...
...more of an effort to make friends separate from the ones that he shares with Lee. "We have the tendency to hang out with other people, but sometimes I wish I had been a little more aggressive in seeking out new friends," Darby says. The two have a large number of friends in common, he says, in part because he spends so much time in Quincy House, where Lee lives...
...their 15-minute opening speeches, both Bok and Horner said they felt their schools' greatest accomplishment over the last 25 years was a dramatic increase in the number of minority students attending Harvard and Radcliffe...