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...rest of the department. "It's all right to be in the minority a lot of the time if the two groups are shifting and everybody tastes a little bit of both sides, but I'm in the minority almost all the time." He notes a general tendency to regard his more recent works less seriously. "People feel it's not economics, it's irrelevant, it's speculation." Maass asserts that Marglin's later career has not been as extraordinary as his early work, adding, "I don't hold that against him, his early work was exceptional...
...only one of the sperm donors has revealed himself to the press: Laureate William Shockley (Physics, 1956), whose genetics opinions are regularly attacked as racist. Says he: "I don't regard myself as a perfect human being or the ideal candidate, but I am endorsing Graham's concept of increasing the people at the top of the population." Steve Broder, who directs a Southern California sperm bank called Cryobank and is a former adviser to Graham, says he saw "three or maybe four" Nobelists donating to the depository. "I see nothing extraordinary in all this," he adds...
...honor to shielding questionable collaborators. At least, the press should do a better job of alerting readers to the advantage someone, or some group, gains by a particular leak. Harold Macmillan, the former Prime Minister of Britain, thinks journalists are too rigid about protecting a source: "They regard themselves as having the privilege of the Roman Catholic priest. I did point out to one of them once that a priest may have to keep the confessional but he doesn't publish it in headlines...
...their highest levels in the nation's history. Last week the rate banks charge their best corporate customers rose a quarter-point to 16.75%. The so-called leading economic indicators, which seek to portend future business trends, fell in January, the fourth consecutive monthly decline. Many economists regard this as a sign that the nation is near a recession...
...Nolan case and the Auspitz case are only two visible and prominent examples of prejudicial policies which discriminate, on one pretext or another, against the promotion and tenure of qualified women at Harvard. The problem is a pressing one. If departments are unwilling to improve their performance with regard to affirmative action, then it is the responsibility of the Harvard administration to see that those principles are upheld...