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Harvard's track record on attracting Black students has been less than exemplary. Numbers of Black matriculants have remained stagnant over the past decade despite increased recruiting efforts. But last year, the number of Black matriculants dipped precipitously to 95 for the Class of 1996, the lowest number since the Col- lege instituted affirmative action admissions policies...
...speech sponsored by the Graduate School of Education's Urban Superintendents Program and the Principal's Center, Edelman chastised the stagnant socio-economic structure of American society...
...would be altogether too easy to dismiss this assertion as the perfunctory but necessary posturing of a candidate who promised instant dynamism, but produced nothing more than paralysis. But the clash between Clinton's belief that he's a proven man of action and the apparent reality of his stagnant administration is not just a matter of politics; it is a true dissonance of perception. Clinton is the first president of a generation which values deliberation as much as, and perhaps more than, substantive action...
...welcomed. The ceremony gives disgrunted students an opportunity to express their opinions and grivances before a wide and often influential audience. Harvard takes its alumni seriously--and alumni who find an issue compelling often have the power to effect change, or at least to put pressure on a stagnant administration...
...benefits of the GATT have been widely acknowledged. It will help to reinvigorate a stagnant global economy. This translates into a profit of about $120 billion, one half of one percent of today's gross world product. Since its inception, the GATT has proved remarkably successful in orchestrating the reduction of world tariff rates, which have fallen from an average of 40 percent in 1947, to four percent today...