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According to David Riesman '31, Ford Professorof Social Sciences Emeritus, the recent focus onthe international implications of American highereducation is actually a long-term movement that"is just beginning to be voiced by leaders...
While the Summer School was formerly seen asthe "third term" of Harvard College, directedprimarily at Harvard undergraduates or graduatestudents, the school now boasts of tripledenrollment in the Secondary School Program andEnglish as a Second Language. And since its firstsession in 1981, the Radcliffe Summer Program inScience has brought together more than 200 highschool girls to encourage and further theirinterests in science...
...governor in 1979, Thornburgh quicklyembarked on his platform to reduce taxes and theamount of state expenditures. During hiseight-year term he cut state income and businesstaxes by $1 billion over three years and fired15,000 state employees. He further reducedgovernment expenditures by kicking what helabelled able bodied adults off the welfare rollsand passing laws restricting the amount of medicalcost assistance...
...appeared to face difficulties. Hatch and Senator Howell Heflin of Alabama, a conservative Democrat, are likely to run afoul of a provision in Article I of the Constitution that prevents any member of Congress from being appointed to a federal position that was voted a salary increase during that term of office. This may keep the Senators from taking court seats, since Congress approved a pay increase for Supreme Court Justices last February...
...Bakke decision on university admissions, at the time not fully backed by any other Justice, influenced what came to be the court's general approach in employment as well as education: race-conscious goals are permissible so long as they do not become permanent, rigid quota systems. In the term just concluded, Powell cast the swing vote in upholding a promotion plan for black Alabama state troopers. But the Reagan Administration has been campaigning to abolish numerical hiring and promotion goals for minorities and women, and Powell could be replaced by a Justice who agrees with the Administration position...