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...despite the fact that a majority of the students select courses eclectically, the committee still worries about the insular minority. Scott adds that there is a possibility of instituting an optional core curriculum to combat the problem...
...bewildered by the criteria used to select the panelists. Given the impressive talent at Harvard/Radcliffe, one would expect to have seen more women and more "third world" scholars. Instead, the audience was subjected to laborious men culpas from a series of men who informed us regarding their moment of personal enlightenment on women's issues. The discussion was disjointed as the panelists--with regrettably few exceptions--seized the opportunity to present their own research findings regardless of any relevance to the subject(s) at hand...
...subcommittee headed by Democrat Clarence Long continued to withhold its approval of the $60 million transfer of funds. Long wants to pressure the Administration into sending a special envoy to El Salvador. Shultz, just returned from a visit to Mexico, spent 3½ hours answering questions from the House Select Intelligence Committee about the Administration's support of anti-Sandinista forces in Nicaragua...
...liked and respected by House colleagues of both parties. Last January he became chairman of the House Rules Committee, which can determine not only the timing of legislation but sometimes whether a bill comes to a vote at all. He reluctantly relinquished his chairmanship of the House Select Committee on Aging. "It was wrenching," he says. "Like choosing between a brother and a sister...
...admissions has been no exception. Last spring, People Magazine schemed to scoop her SAT scores. And this fall, as the coyly sized up the Ivy League, no passing reaction from Brooke or her indefatigable mother Teri escaped the headlines. Her decision that Princeton was the university probably boosted that select institution's popularity rating enough to counteract the loss of an entire academic major and long-standing image difficulties on campus housing policy, keeping the application numbers sky-high...