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...view critically the tracking systems that A. P. and other programs have generated. Our criticism extends to the policies of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, for Advanced Standing and Honors distinctions have created divisive labels that are unnecessary and that have educational and social consequences which are often detrimental. We recommend that the present policy of granting Advanced Standing to selected entering students be terminated. The chance to graduate in three years minimizes the impact of this change, and we do not feel that an A. B. should be awarded for less than three years of college experience (either at Harvard...
Anyway, I highly recommend all three activities. And you know how you can trust my recommendations. Just look at my prediction record. I don't know how to improve on last week's perfect slate, but since all the bettors are out of town...
...said that many Radcliffe alumnae and Harvard faculty members had written to the committee to recommend women to succeed Bunting...
...businesses, the committee decided to recommend an investment tax credit of 7% on capital goods ordered after April 1. The measure allows corporations and individuals who make capital investments to deduct 7% of their cost from tax bills. Nixon had asked for credits of 10% for one year and 5% thereafter. The committee's action, when combined with such other modifications as the extension to small firms of the tax incentive on purchases of used equipment, does not alter the estimated total tax reduction-about $2.8 billion annually...
Except for Condon's description of the arrangement between the Mafia and the FBI, which is rather nice, there is not even much style to recommend. One or two sentences, not more, are worth prizing out of their settings to be enjoyed. "She laughed," Condon writes with a bit of the old jazz, in "three low musical tones, deliciously, like a dying sailor's memory of a whorehouse doorbell." Let the dying reader's memory be of The Manchurian Candidate...