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...first good week in months, Bill Clinton had begun to shed, often grudgingly, some of the peculiar habits that helped send his approval ratings to a record low for a first-term President. He is delegating responsibility to a new troika of top aides. He is more disciplined with his words in public. He is spending less time in meetings with advisers and more time mending fences with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. While no one believes the White House is working perfectly yet -- the President remains hopelessly behind his daily schedule -- Clinton's confidence is returning. "The President," said White...
Nevertheless, the embers flared as the Coalition for Diversity, a consortium of minority student groups, sprang forth this spring with a list of demands and ultimatums, branding Harvard "the Peculiar Institution" in flyers distributed at Junior Parents Weekend...
...almost year later, the Race Czar has faced a fiery trial which has included a coalition of minority student groups who dubbed Harvard "the Peculiar Institution," a Boston Globe profile which called him "the water carrier" of the administration, and bureaucratic infighting in his own backyard...
...coalition issues a flyer titled. "The Peculiar Institution," with a list of demands: an apology from Thomson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 for remarks linking grade inflation to the influx of Black enrollment in the early '70s; the creation of a minority student resource center; the establishment of an ethnic studies program; an official investigation into the role of "institutionalized racism," a town meeting with President Nell L. Rudenstine and other administrators; and greater faculty diversity...
...number of stories, content and the number of issues raised, Black students are subject to significantly more," says Zaheer R. Ali '94, former president of the Black Students Association (BSA). Ali also spearheaded a coalition of nine campus minority groups, the Coalition for Diversity, which called Harvard "the Peculiar Institution...