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...Review was wise to scrap the plan it originally adopted three weeks ago and replace it with an affirmative action policy that avoids rigid quotas or targets but still aims to increase minority and women representation. The original mechanical procedure would have been an ineffective means to achieve more diversity. Underlying any affirmative action policy is a belief that a person who has been underprivileged--economically, socially or educationally--in the past will achieve a level of academic performance beneath his or her potential. But if past deprivation is the explanation for the fact that over the past two years...
Throughout, the film is wise and funny, and uninsistently, even casually, profound in what it has to say about the perdurability of art. -By Richard Schickel
...three good-sized novels in the past 16 months. Shikasta (1979) tells of a primitive, beautiful planet called Rohanda, which is being jointly colonized by the two vast galactic empires of Canopus and Sirius. A misalignment of cosmic forces throws Rohanda awry; its developing inhabitants stop listening to their wise tutors and begin behaving suspiciously like members of the human race. The Canopean overseers sadly change the place's name to Shikasta, "the hurt, the damaged, the wounded one." In The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five (1980), Lessing unveils a different terrain in her new universe...
...following exchange between Sen. Robert J. Dole (R-Kan) and Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wise) took place January 21, 1981, at the confirmation hearings of the Secretary of the Treasury, Donald Regan...
...until then, you'd be wise to avoid the worst corners in Cambridge (listed in the accompanying...