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After 15 years of authoritarian rule, Pinochet agrees to uphold results of a plebiscite. While the vote is a turning point, it will not transform the country overnight, and the future is far from certain. -- Perestroika brings intriguing changes to the KGB. -- Why South Africa is so eagerly courting its black neighbors. -- Foreign troops are leaving, but Angola still bleeds...
There is presently a case pending before the Supreme Court challenging the use of profiles. The Court is expected to uphold the technique. Its previous decisions have sanctioned the informal questioning that profiling is supposed to engender. But the line between coercive and noncoercive questioning is often blurred by law enforcement officers who at best are guilty of zealousness, and at worst racial prejudice...
...admission standards. The current admissions policy fails to predict college performance and sometimes holds back capable students. It simply allows the Ivy League to maintain the false appearance of strict academic standards for athletes on the way in, despite the concessions the schools give to athletes who do not uphold the academic end of the bargain once they are here...
...quasi-pro athletic programs in many major schools, it is important that the Ivy League uphold the reputation of student-athletes who are both students and athletes. Critics of the change in Columbia's program were afraid that the Ivy League would start to move in the direction of the Southwest Conference and the Big Ten, which field teams first, and colleges second...
Hearings between the University and the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) ended early last week, but a final ruling on whether to uphold last spring's union victory is still several months away...