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Increasing diversity in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, like increasing the diversity of the student body, is a laudable goal. But minority professors are scarce, and those who have what it takes to be Harvard professors are even scarcer...
Since then, information has been scarcer. Last fall, when Harvard administrators like Provost Jerry R. Green and then-Vice President for Government Community and Public Affairs John H. Shattuck were falling all over themselves to get to the front of the line of those endorsing Bill Clinton for president, Rudenstine kept quiet. He said he didn't think it was right for the president of Harvard to take sides in that partisan election...
None of this behavior was a surprise to anyone familiar with my school. Republicans are scarce in Seattle and even scarcer in the inner cities. The socialist candidate for president recieved more votes in our high school's election than George Bush...
...Scarcer resources will be the order of theday," Rudenstine said...
...spent. The April riots led to more than 6,000 insurance claims totaling $775 million, mostly on commercial property. Now, with more damage in the area from the two major earthquakes on June 28 heaping new claims on insurers and frightening already skittish tourists, funds will be scarcer still...