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...role of legacy parents and the importance of a strong extracurricular record. However, alumni would obviously balk at their reduced status, and as a future alumnus myself, I too, would support their opposition. And as for reducing the importance of extracurricular activities, to do so would remove the stamp of the Harvard man or woman. Yes, Harvard has stated that it wishes to integrate diverse groups, but its main goal is to educate the most talented individuals--talent, according to its own definition. Harvard is a private university and has established its own criterion for admission in order to make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Asian-Americans | 2/12/1988 | See Source »

...limited to Blacks. Meanwhile, the caucus-goers effectively eliminated two men whose presence only obscured the Democratic field, former Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt and former Colorado Sen. Gary Hart. Thanks to the Iowans, the Democratic party can now sport a few candidates who have received someone's stamp of approval besides Snow White...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Iowa Separates the Wheat From the Chaff | 2/10/1988 | See Source »

While the new issues may appeal to stamp collectors, legislators expect that drug dealers will ignore them -- and open themselves to further criminal prosecution. Anyone caught selling drugs without the stamps faces up to three years in jail and a $10,000 fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Illinois: Licking Drugs With Stamps | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

Here is a case of an enemy of totalitarianism failing to listen to someone who's lived under it. The great evil of the Soviet Union or the Third Reich is its ability to stamp out the humanity of humans. Brodksy knows this evil, having lived in a world where the private realm is quite completely controlled by the state...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: Why Johnny Can't Rule | 1/13/1988 | See Source »

...Planners who felt that London was too dense and dark decided that new buildings should reach up high in search of light. They rose, in fact, to the 52-story, 600-ft. level of the NatWest Tower, dwarfing the 365-ft.-high St. Paul's dome. According to Gavin Stamp, architecture critic of the London Daily Telegraph, "Wren's skyline was lost, not owing to any conscious decision, but to a sort of collective fit of absence of mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Wrecking Wren's London Skyline | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

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