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...Senate rushed toward completion of the Administration-backed bill and the House Ways and Means Committee drafted a Democratic alternative, U.S. taxpayers were assured of at least a two-year cut (see chart). President Reagan would be seen as the victor if the final bill includes a third-year reduction. Without one, he argues, the average American will actually face a net tax increase because of inflation, higher tax brackets and rising Social Security obligations. Some House Democrats last week said they were willing to compromise by accepting a third-year "trigger" under which the tax cuts would continue only...
...never managed to expand its limited membership in those days--averaging about 50 students--RLA drew even more insignificant numbers. Ruth Colker '78, a third-year student at Harvard Law School, former president of Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), captain of the crew team and member of RLA, remembers its creation. Ann W. Merrill '77 "announced the foundation of a lesbian group. And the women who showed up had never met other lesbians at Harvard; they weren't even sure they existed. She posted notices announcing the first meeting and the posters were defaced and torn down as soon...
...regardless of their grades and the rest of the editors are selected on both grades and writing comp results, weighted 70/30. Individuals are not told how they made the review. "There's been a fair amount of lamenting the low proportion of applications from minorities and women. The 30 third-year editors at Columbia include 10 women but no minorities; the 34 second-year editors include five women and two Hispanic students. "The suggestion for affirmative action hasn't really come up here--I'd like to focus instead on getting more applications from minorities and women," says Leffell...
...expert teacher. Warns Exeter's catalogue: "Maximum participation is encouraged, pretense and careless preparation [are] readily perceived." In practice, this means that Math Instructor Richard Brown knows his students will be prepared before he begins class discussion by asking, "Have we proved the equation?" In third-year French, Exonians are required to discuss in French their assigned stories. Anyone who lapses into English meets with the teacher afterward to talk things over -in French. Most of the school's science courses follow an "open lab" system so that students can visit labs and do their own experiments...
...Allen J. Rothman, another third-year law student said last week he approves of the faculty vote: "Employers must look at something, and exams are an equalizer for students with less prestigious resumes...