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Harvard University provided Sinedu Tadesse '96 with inadequate advising and medical support, Melanie Thernstrom '87 alleges in her new book about the 1995 Dunster House murder-suicide, Halfway Heaven, scheduled to hit bookstores Monday...
Critics of affirmative action say the results in California and Texas bear out what they have been saying all along--that selective schools rely far too heavily on racial double standards. Some, like Abigail Thernstrom, co-author of a forthcoming book on race, used the new numbers to zero in on what she feels is the real problem: the public schools. "Our high schools graduate black and Hispanic students who are way behind whites and Asians in basic cognitive skills," she says. Admitting minorities with lower scores "lets these schools off the hook." That is why even such anti-affirmative...
...Thernstrom declined yesterday to comment specifically on her new book's arrival date, saying only, "It is not upcoming...
...Thernstrom has authored a previous book, titled The Dead Girl, about the brutal murder of a friend of hers in California
...Thernstrom also criticized Harvard for withholding important information about the incident...