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Hughes-Hallet is one of few individuals at Harvard who gained a senior faculty post because of her teaching skills. She does no research and does not have a Ph.D...
...April 25, Reagan's three Supreme Court appointees--Justices Kennedy, O'Connor, and Scalia--joined Justices Rehnquist and White and voted to reconsider the right of minorities to sue private parties for racial discrimination under a post-Civil War statute, section 1981 of Title 42 of the United States Code. If the Court overturns section 1981, as it is expected to do, it will be the first time in 100 years that the Court has overturned a precedent expanding minority rights...
...week. As it did, a string of incandescent flares dropped from the aircraft, a necessary defense against Stinger missiles, the U.S.-made, heat-seeking, antiaircraft weapons used by the mujahedin, Afghanistan's resistance. On the airport perimeter, sunburned Soviet soldiers stood around a formidable new stone-and-cement guard post topped by a hammer-and-sickle flag. Their thoughts were turning toward withdrawal from their flinty outpost. "Who wouldn't like to go home?" asked Victor Avershin, a blond, 19-year-old private. "Everybody wants to go home...
...former aide, who took a leave from his State House post to manage former New York Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro's unsuccessful 1984 vice presidential campaign, brought in veterans from her staff and that of former Vice President Walter Mondale when he assembled the Dukakis campaign...
...government sincerely desired to be an equal partner with the European Community, then it should not restrain the military and technological development of European allies. He said that following these steps would lead to a more equal international distribution of power instead of the bipolarity of the post-WWII period...