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...years since the University first instituted an affirmative action policy, Harvard has become one of the focal points of a nationwide debate about the legitimacy and implications of affirmative action. While few scholars have openly opposed the policy, the definitional disagreements have run rampant, and have severely hindered its operation...
...coming decade threatens to be a damaging one for higher education. Like every segment of society, colleges and universities must contend with mammoth costs brought on by rampant inflation. The past 20 years have been an era of growth for higher education. Now, too many institutions will have to complete for a tighter market of students because of a drop in the college-age population--a large portion of which is cynical about the value of a degree in a world marked by rising tuition and cab-driving Ph.D.s. Compounding these problems is the Reagan-Stockman offensive against federal spending...
...There is some truth in the aphorism of Charles Silberman, author of Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice, that "crime is as American as Jesse James." But there is also something new about the way that Americans are killing, robbing, raping and assaulting one another. The curse of violent crime is rampant not just in the ghettos of depressed cities, where it always has been a malignant force to contend with, but everywhere in urban areas, in suburbs and peaceful countrysides. More significant, the crimes are becoming more brutal, more irrational, more random ?and therefore all the more frightening...
Dothan quickly spotted numerous fragments of old pottery, including bits similar to the Egyptian-style artifacts in Jerusalem. Since there were signs that grave robbers had been at work, Dothan wanted to start excavating immediately. But terrorism was still rampant in the Gaza Strip; it was three years before the army let her team begin. Even then, a squad of soldiers always stood guard and allowed no digging after 4 p.m. Dothan was not deterred. To help locate promising sites, she hired as her foreman a Bedouin named Hamad who had been doing some freelance digging...
...often, after a cumbersome administrative hearing, the recipient may be temporarily disqualified or ordered to pay $5 or so a month in restitution. The fact that 70% of those who claim to be unemployed never subsequently register at a state employment office, as regulations require, indicates that fraud is rampant. The Denver program, its administrators concede, is taken for at least $90,000 a month; the true figure is probably much higher. The horror stories abound: the woman who got stamps under five names, the three men who together used 27 names...