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...they are, to take the law into their own hands." Unofficially, however, the government is leery of taking on the Catholic Church, particularly after the international uproar about the Soweto rioting. Said one government official: "We're a pariah as it is. We don't want a quarrel with the Pope as well...
Surprisingly, Justices William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall, the dissenters in Washington v. Davis, did not quarrel with Justice Powell's interpretation of the Constitution in the Arlington Heights case. They dissented solely on the ground that it should be returned to the lower court to apply that interpretation. Observes Georgetown Law Professor Jerome Shuman: "The new decision continues the shift from judging the effects of discrimination to assessing the intent of the zoning laws, and intent is far more difficult to prove." Adds the director of a fair-housing organization: "The decision raises the standards of proof much higher...
Although several medical area committees advised Bok during his search, he did not submit his final choice to the Med School faculty for final approval. That omission led several members to say yesterday that while they have no quarrel with Tosteson's appointment, they still question the adequacy of Bok's consultation methods...
...Harvard community. The issue, which appears at the moment to be stalemated, brought to the forefront a disparity in the definitions of "minorities" utilized by the federal Department of Health, Education and welfare and by the University: the former includes Asian-Americans, the latter does not. But while the quarrel has to date centered primarily on this rather technical issue, the questions raised go far deeper, extending to the psychology of non-white students at Harvard, the underlying philosophy of admissions department recruitment programs and the need for increased orientation programs for all students, not simply those fitting narrowly-defined...
There is no quarrel about whether there are hazards. Everybody knows there are hazards. It is the molecular biologists themselves who about three years ago blew the whistle on this kind of research, and for three years there has been continuous dialogue. We who are worried are constantly being told, "you're just having bad dreams." If we've just been having bad dreams, then what have they been talking about for three years...