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Summing up, D' Souza said the "moral case for affirmative action has become weaker [as more groups have come under it]" and therefore "while affirmative action might have done some good in the 60s, [it] has become increasingly problematic...
Ironically, the Crimson came out harder in yesterday's overtime than against a weaker opponent in the Yale game...
...effect, the depoliticization of the council has made Harvard's student government still weaker. In campaigning last December, Stewart argued that the council was wasting time discussing issues like Faculty diversity and divestment from Nigeria--time that could be better spent improving student life. But that argument has not stood up. The council's meetings are shorter, but our representatives have not accomplished significantly more in the way of student life than in previous years. And meanwhile, an important dialogue on larger issues has been abandoned...
...Quietly, behind the scenes, the U.S. has been moving closer toward Cuba," says TIME Miami bureau chief Tammerlin Drummond. "Castro's enemies in the U.S. are getting weaker." Drummond notes that the Cuban American National Foundation has funneled thousands of dollars to Senators such as Jesse Helms and has been instrumental in lobbying for an anti-Castro policy. But the death last year of its imposing leader, Jorge Mas Canosa, was a critical blow to the group. Since then, the Pope has visited Havana, President Clinton has declawed the Helms-Burton sanctions and influential U.S. businesses have been lobbying furiously...
...With the Dow still dropping, traders will be watching the Export and Import Prices report tomorrow for confirmation of what we all suspect: that economic problems and weaker currencies in Asia are causing cheaper goods to flood into the U.S. while weakening the markets for domestic goods and services abroad...