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Many educations institutions like Harvard Law School can avoid compliance with anti-discrimination law once they carry out their faculty hiring practices in secrecy. Harvard Law School does not accept nor solicit application for faculty positions. Instead, a faculty appointments committee, selected by the HLS dean, decides whom it wants to consider. Rejected candidates are most often unaware that they have been considered for and denied a faculty position. They, therefore, rarely know when they have a legal claim of discrimination against the school. Current faculty members, who are also harmed by HLS's discriminatory hiring practices, are similarly unlikely...
...putsch attempt in August, Shevardnadze has been watching from the sidelines as the power of the central government has drained away to the ascendant republics. His decision to rejoin Mikhail Gorbachev is likely to lend credibility to the Soviet President's efforts to reconstruct a union and to solicit Western aid for the ailing economy...
...solicit the tolerance of the Harvard community in allowing me to continue the intra-Christian community discussion in your paper regarding homosexuality. I am a deeply committed Christian, Lutheran campus minister and a pastor at University Lutheran Church...
...most thinly plausible paperwork documenting its origins, dealers generally leap at the chance to buy. Museums, those bastions of traditional culture, can also be compromised. Lowenthal points out that the Getty Museum, endowed by the late oil billionaire J. Paul Getty, has "enormous funds" and does not have to solicit donations to build its collection virtually from scratch...
Another bill, sponsored by the academics committee, reestablished the Freshman/Upperclass Connection, a council-organized resource to help first-years solicit advice from upperclass students...