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...first year, he administered a budget of $204 million; today he controls $650 million. Previous presidents had little to worry about in the way of federal regulation, but Title VII of the Civil Rights Act required Bok to alter hiring policies for his whole faculty. The energy crunch and chronic inflation ravaged many universities; Bok created the Harvard Management Corp., which invested Harvard's $3.5 billion endowment in profitable stocks. Yet throughout these official and financial labors, Bok has paid primary attention to Harvard's intellectual and ethical goals, not only of the college but particularly of the business...
...Europe was on the brink of political disaster. In England, the year began with the death of much-beloved King George VI and ended with a crisis of leadership surrounding the eventual abdication of the playboy Prince of Wales Edward VII. France was paralyzed by a kind of national paranoic fear that money-grubbing businessmen were controlling the country to the detriment of the average working class and petit bourgeois citizen...
...problem is that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act seems to prohibit special benefits to either sex. Friedan, who has drawn most of the heat in a fairly calm debate, surprised many feminists by repudiating the equal-rights stance that the women's movement has taken for years. "The time has come to acknowledge that women are different from men," she says. "There has to be a concept of equality that takes into account that women are the ones who have the babies...
...International Association of Firefighters to an affirmative-action plan that had been agreed on by the city and an organization of black and Hispanic fire fighters called the Vanguards. The Vanguards charged the city with discrimination in hiring, assigning and promoting fire fighters in violation of both Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the Constitution. Cleveland, which had unsuccessfully litigated similar issues for eight years, agreed to a courtapproved settlement under which the city was required to give half of all promotions to minority fire fighters. The white-dominated union asked the Supreme Court to overturn the consent...
...even then the seeds of renewal were sprouting. The great reformer Odo of Cluny went to Rome on a diplomatic mission, and there soon began the line of Cluniac Popes who rebuilt the entire church. They reached their apogee of power when Gregory VII marched northward in 1077 to depose the disobedient German King Henry IV by sheer willpower. His march was halted only when the humbled King knelt for three days in the snow at Canossa to plead for the Pope's forgiveness...