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University policy has not changed either. Hopes for improvement--at least within FAS--actually ran high for a brief period last spring, after the well-publicized Verba Report was released and before it was vitiated by the Faculty Council...
...report gave rise to optimism mainly because of its bold proposal to restructure affirmative action procedures within FAS's academic departments. Under the initial recommendation, each department would name a senior faculty member other than the chair as an affirmative action representative to oversee the recruitment process...
...precise toll exacted by the drug lords is hard to certify: Colombian journalists are also targeted by leftist guerrillas and rightist death squads. In a new report titled "Murder: The Ultimate Censorship," the Inter American Press Association notes, "Nowhere is this struggle between the forces of darkness and the forces of light more clearly drawn than in Colombia." Some of the country's ablest reporters have fled into exile or gone into hiding, their voices effectively silenced. Others admit their news judgment has been affected...
...little too quickly, it seems. According to a report by the Energy Department's inspector general made public last week, the DOE not only failed to locate the missing tritium but never adequately addressed the possibility that the gas was stolen. In a sharply worded statement that raises questions about what exactly the Government has been doing for the past five months, the inspector general said that earlier explanations attributing the losses to procedural errors or mismeasurements were based more on "speculation than fact." More than a year after the first shortfalls occurred, the report charges, "basic questions concerning...
Three separate investigations were launched to explain the discrepancies, but according to the inspector general's report, none of the probes seriously pursued the possibility of illegal diversion. Experts say that although the material was packed in sealed containers, it was sent by commercial carrier and did not receive the special safeguards used for shipments of plutonium or enriched uranium. Last week's report urged a fresh investigation and a tightening of procedures. Critics welcomed the recommendations but wondered why they came so late. Asked Congressman Edward Markey of Massachusetts, who released the report to the press: "Do we have...