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...lack of talent--which is brought up through the system from the freshman team--means the program must rely more and more on foreign players. This is an additive process: the success of foreign players has brought about the neglect of the junior varsity; this neglect results in an even greater reliance on this fragile group of foreign talent...
Malin blames the weakness of the JV program on the lack of a separate practice field, and on the success at the varsity level of foreign players in recent years. This success was so great that there was little need to concentrate on developing skills of JV players...
...together in a scattered plot. The play has been attributed to a handful of people and Shakespeare is said to have written very little of it, so there is no sacrilege in the efforts of Randy Echols to rewrite and improve. The production at the Loeb Ex makes a success out of the doctored script with several Leob veterans who have coordinated their schedules to produce a cast of rare balance...
...even the modest commitment to minority hiring made in the latest version of its affirmative action plan. Even though the plan--which is incredibly weak--has finally been accepted by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare after three years, numerous major revisions and $250,000 in costs, its success in guaranteeing that a significantly greater number of women and minority group members will fill higher level Harvard positions is scarcely assured...
...which is no doubt why it provokes such a furor. It has been shown that I.Q. scores reflect genetic differences between people (though not entirely), that they correlate with the ordinary meaning of intelligence (though far from perfectly), that they index a necessary (though not sufficient) ingredient in success for most occupations in a modern society. You may disbelieve each of those assertions, but if you do, it is only because you have fallen victim to the central principle of the controversy--that any criticism of the I.Q. test gains automatic credibility, independent of its merits...