Word: wisconsin
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...caution: in the past, many of them had espoused anti-interventionist sentiments in Nicaragua and toward the Navy escorts of Kuwaiti oil tankers during the Iran-Iraq war. Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts called the episode "a black mark on our diplomacy and our values." Congressman Les Aspin of Wisconsin declared, "We should go in and capture Noriega." Aspin differentiated between military intervention and "a snatch. All I want is Noriega." In the face of such belligerence, Republican Senator Robert Dole cracked, "Suddenly the place is filled with hawks. They were all doves during the Persian Gulf...
Miller is based in Wisconsin, the home state ofSen. Herbert Kohl (D-Wisc.), who co-sponsored themodified amendment
McKay's decision to stay at Wisconsin comes at a time when that school has had difficulty retaining its Black faculty, despite an ambitious affirmative action plan. Last year, Wisconsin brought in three new Black professors, but five Blacks already on the faculty departed, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education...
...Wisconsin's affirmative action plan, adopted early last year, called for the school to hire 70 new minority professors in three and a half years...
Grant said he did not see McKay's choice of Wisconsin over Harvard as a victory for his school, saying the competition for her demonstrated a larger problem in academia...