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...Women's Studies propgram at Harvard is no exception. As Prof. Mansfield pointed out, the program is biased towards a liberal critique, as evidenced by the Women's Studies 10 reading list. One of the surest signs fo the vitality of a discipline is the existence of disparate points of view among researchers in that discipline. Yet Women's Studies professors everywhere speak with one voice. Are there any Phyllis Schlaflys teaching Women's Studies? Any Jerry Fallwells? Anyone who disagrees significantly with Gloria Steinem, Bela Abzug, et al? I didn't think so. So what makes Women's Studies...
...attracts -- Harvard remains in front. Typical freshmen this fall ranked in the top 3% of their high school classes. Even more impressive to admissions officers, 73% of the 2,184 accepted by Harvard (from 13,500 applicants) agreed to attend. This percentage, called the yield ratio, is the surest barometer of where the best students want to go. "We're disappointed, selfishly, because those students aren't enrolling here," says Jean Fetter, dean of undergraduate admissions at Stanford, whose yield of 60% is second to Harvard's. A Harvard admission can be regarded as such a prize that one Wall...
...army but as Democrats or Republicans, married or single, old or young, heterosexual or things my 19th century upbringing forbids me to name. In fact, few individuals seeking redress or public attention claim the advantage of numbers on their behalf. On the contrary: they petition from weakness as the surest method of attaining their goals. The proliferation of vociferous minorities has doubtless resulted in the righting of many wrongs. It has also led to a noticeable decline in the civility of public discourse. The United States has become at once more equitable, and clamorous, than before...
...realities faced by bilingual programs. Local politics play an important role in the making of school districts' curricula. The 200,000 students currently enrolled in bilingual programs constitute a small minority in the areas in which they reside. Both the Supreme Court and Congress have recognized that the surest way of protecting minority groups' rights is to mandate a federal program. The Lau decision concluded that when the issue of bilingual education was left to local school districts, the students in need of bilingual instruction were not receiving...
...Brewery in 1982, and now has only 1% of the U.S. beer market. Coke, though, believes its careful and exhaustive testing and a huge advertising campaign will make its new taste successful--at least for the next 99 years. Chairman Goizueta calls the change to the new taste "the surest move ever made...