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...opportunity should be shut behind our generation. However, it is important to consider what is involved when a "balanced" freshman class is engineered with changing numbers of Blacks, Hispanics and Asians. The diversity principle proclaims not only that students of every sex, race, creed, color, religious group and national origin should have access to a Harvard education, but also that the individuals who fill these classifications must participate as part of the whole while remaining as unique as before...
...cases are classified as instances of heterosexual transmission. Nearly half of those cases actually have no identified risks of infection, but the victims were born in countries where heterosexual transmission is believed to play a major role. The CDC lists an additional 3% of AIDS cases as "undetermined" in origin. Most of these victims were people who died before being thoroughly interviewed. Says the researcher who investigates this category: "We still get a flavor that they are engaging in high-risk behavior...
Whether or not the Conservatives remain in power, Britain's new Parliament will almost surely be different in one significant respect: color. Although about 4% of the country's 56 million people are nonwhite -- mostly of Asian or Afro-Caribbean origin -- there have been no nonwhite members in the House of Commons in 58 years. Three Asians served briefly between 1892 and 1929, but no black has ever taken a seat. This time three nonwhite candidates, all running on the Labor Party ticket, are expected to be among the 650 members of the new Commons. Says Marc Wadsworth, a black...
While there is no definitive proof that the Austrian President committed war crimes, a Justice Department spokesman said the "evidence collected establishes a prima facie case that Kurt Waldheim assisted or otherwise participated in the persecution of persons because of race, religion, national origin or political opinion." For years Waldheim had left the impression that he had been wounded on the Soviet front in 1941 and spent most of the remaining war years finishing his studies. He later admitted he was a first lieutenant on the staff of German Group E in the Balkans from...
...pastel-colored blouses and slacks. They stroll hand in hand with bookbags over their shoulders, loll on the steps of lecture halls, hop into their cars for a trip to one of the 47 restaurants catering to Maties, the nickname for U. of S. students that had its origin in the tomato-color blazers students used to wear. The Maties have long been politically apathetic. In 1986 Jannie Gagiano, a lecturer in political science, carried out studies on student attitudes. The results, he says, "show an amazingly high degree of attachment to the system and a high regard...