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...fact, in response to public pressure about discrimination and quotas in 1988, Harvard’s Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 asserted that “while Asian Americans are slightly stronger than whites on academic criteria, they are slightly less strong on extracurricular criteria.” These comments are eerily reminiscent of the stereotyping of Jews in attempts to limit their enrollment in the early 20th century...
...long-running western, focusing on the work of the series' best-known directors, all the more fascinating and revealing. The set collects episodes and commentary from movie directors including Arthur Hiller (Love Story) and Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond) as well as actor-directors like Dennis Weaver and William Conrad. In his commentary, Weaver explains why Gunsmoke used more long and midrange shots than TV does now. "We didn't have zoom lenses," he says, laughing. "You had to move the camera, and that took time, and time was money." For western fans and TV-history buffs alike, this...
...Lampert used his hedge fund to take over Kmart and Sears, then funneled the stores' cash flow into derivatives trades--which last quarter made $101 million, half the company's net income. Nelson Peltz used his to storm onto the board of H.J. Heinz. "By many different definitions," says William Goetzmann, professor of finance at Yale School of Management, "we're seeing the institutionalization of hedge funds...
...first suspected Russian spy nabbed in Canada in a decade is stirring memories of cold war espionage in North America. The alleged Russian agent, known only as Paul William Hampel - the name on his bogus Canadian passport - was arrested Nov. 14 at Montreal's Pierre Elliott Trudeau airport under a national security certificate signed only five days earlier by two senior Cabinet ministers in charge of public safety and immigration...
...Angeles Police Department (LAPD), it doesn’t require a historian to name a few incidents of equally horrifying brutality. In just one of a sickening series of recently-posted YouTube.com clips, two LA police officers dredge up memories of Rodney King as they assault 24-year-old William Cardenas...