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...John B. Fox Jr. ’59, the dean of the College at the time, wrote in a letter accompanying the study that the College should consider acting to redress the imbalances since “the original intention of the House system” was to make each House a “microcosm of the College...
...four families of Zhuangtouying have spent 13 years dealing with the modern-day descendants of Kangxi and his mandarins. Like millions of Chinese for whom the legal system has provided little satisfaction, they have sought redress through petitions in Beijing, exercising an ancient right to bypass the courts and appeal directly to the central government. Official statistics are unreliable, but legal scholars say that out of the nearly 12 million petitions filed in 2006, only a few thousand will succeed. Out of those, petitioners able to translate Beijing's decrees into corrective action by local officials likely number...
...TIME: So, you too are a partisan. Do you have any sympathy for the argument made by Christian activists that our culture and courts favor non-belief, and that Christians need redress to re-establish a level playing field...
...While willing to fess up to the bombings, Toufeili insists that the kidnappings of Westerners "had nothing to with Hizballah. Nothing at all." Indeed, as he puts it, Iran's policy of using Lebanese Shi'ites to kidnap Westerners was a "mistake" which he tried to redress...
...reasons of history and circumstance might have considered Harvard inaccessible.” Harvard, to some degree, still retains the reputation of being an elite, white, upper-class school—a stigma that belies the true vibrancy and diversity of our student body. The UMRP actively works to redress that misperception by catering to the specific cultural concerns of minority students. Unlike general concerns about social or academic life at Harvard, minority students must often consider issues particular to their racial or ethnic background—fears of prejudice, stereotyping, and cultural isolation. Those concerns are best addressed...