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They already make up disproportionately large shares of university classes, a development that has stuck a bamboo pole into the affirmative-action machinery. Fully 41% of the entering freshman class at UCLA this autumn consists of students of Asian descent. At Berkeley they total 33.6% of enrollments, which has prompted calls for an admissions policy limiting their numbers. Not all rivals for the fruits of education are convinced that such an invidious system would be fair play. Some black intellectuals who have a stronger faith in self-reliance have argued that competing minorities would be better off raising their...
...others) the style gives the pictures an infrangible gravity, as in No. 57, The Female Worker Was Also One of the Last Groups to Leave the South, with its single figure of a laundress in a white smock, stirring a vat of fabrics -- blue, black, yellow, pink -- with her pole: a dense and well-locked composition, suggesting the permanence and resistance that form one of the underlying themes of Lawrence's great series...
Greenberg wove anecdotes into his speech. Inone story, the rabbi talked about a ceremony inwhich Napoleon called forth the three greatestfighters in his army--a German, a Pole and aJew--and granted them each a wish...
Most disturbing for parents is that Michael seemed a perfectly normal teen. He was no self-destructive brooder -- "a bouncy, real nice guy," remembers Cathy Willis, the high schools student-activities coordinator. College-bound, a pole-vaulter who also subbed on the basketball team, he had little to prove. He rode horses, hunted and took part in adult-supervised "demolition derby" auto races, but was hardly a risk addict. Nor was peer pressure a problem, says his girlfriend Raina Hedglin: "I don't know anyone who could influence him." At his funeral, friends and family buried a large...
Some of the teachers who stay become increasingly resentful at having to leave. If Harvard were a totem pole, Expos faculty would be on the part that is under the ground, but it is still the Harvard totem pole. It's all downhill from here. The thought of having to teach more students for less money at a place like (God forbid!) Boston College causes the bile to rise. And guess who becomes the chief focus of all that anger...