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...been in several years. As a result, Dean Rosovsky and President Bok in March called for a review of minority recruiting in an effort to determine why minority students, and blacks in particular, are shying away from Harvard. Decreasing minority applications to colleges has been a national trend this past year and the reasons for it are complex. It is clear that any committee that Bok and Rosovsky form to look into the question will not be able to resolve the issues. But Harvard's admissions office should promote more recruiting among public schools, and less at private institutions...
Signs of the trend include increased emphasis on the Kennedy School of Government's Public Policy program--a program labeled Bok's top fund-raising priority by fund-raising czar Chase N. Peterson '54, vice president for alumni affairs and development. Other indications are promoted interest in the Nieman Fellows program and in the Business School management programs...
American Context. One of the first to detect the trend to conservatism was James William Guercio, 29, a former Mothers of Invention guitarist turned millionaire moviemaker (Electra Glide in Blue). He manages Chicago and occasionally sits in on bass with the Beach Boys. Guercio brought the groups together. Garbed in a baggy football jersey bearing his last name and the numeral 1 and sitting in the living room of his $30,000 mobile home, Guercio tries to explain it all: "The American experience is found in Southern California and the streets of Chicago. These bands sing about youth, love...
Because funds from foundations and private contributors have begun to dry up, public interest law firms across the U.S. have been increasingly delighted by a recent trend in court judgments. In the past few years, many federal judges have ordered the losers to pay lawyers' fees when a public interest claim was upheld. The theory was that the plaintiffs lawyers had acted as "private attorneys general," helping to enforce laws that public agencies could not administer adequately...
...power in Asia. Says a vice president of Manhattan's First National City Bank somewhat wistfully: "Perhaps we can now learn from the Japanese how to operate with only an economic and not a military presence." The learning process, in fact, may have already begun. Bankers detect a trend toward more U.S.-Japanese and other joint ventures and fewer solo investment efforts. In the long run, they believe that the reappraisal could lead to a healthier investing climate throughout Asia...