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...second time in less then a month, affirmative action has become a point of contention at the Law School. Three weeks ago the Law Faculty ended a year-long debate by accepting a modified affirmative action plan adopted by the Law Review. Now a coalition of minority student organizations is urging the admissions office and administration to take similar steps...
...SCHOOL faculty quietly voted last week not to respond to an affirmative action plan that the Harvard Law Review staff had adopted earlier this year It's rarely noteworthy when a Harvard faculty fails to act; the Law faculty's decision not to intervene, however, marks the end of a year-long controversy during which law professors often seemed all-too-willing in trade upon the Review's internal affairs...
...YEAR-LONG CAMPAIGN with just three official contests--the caucuses, the convention, and the primary election--needs more benchmarks to fill in the gaps and to keep the media happy, and so the next litmus test for all to examine is O'Neill fundraiser next week. A $100-a-head cocktail reception at Quincy Market, the get-together was scheduled to bolster the ailing finances of the flagging crusade. Both Dukakis and King have more than half a million dollars at their disposal, and can get more when they need it. O'Neill has $5,000 in the bank...
Pontiffs have intervened in the past by dictating the elections of Superiors General. In 1773 Pope Clement XIV even dissolved the society, a 41-year-long humiliation that some Jesuit intellectuals close to the Vatican are comparing with John Paul's treatment...
From the moment police charged Milligan with the rapes--which he did not recall, since he was dominated at the time of arrest by his central personality, Billy--a year-long struggle between prosecutors and psychiatrists ensued. No one suspected the extent of his mental disorder at first; as Keyes tells it, a chorus of citizens' groups and police, spurred on by sensationalist reporters, called for life imprisonment for Milligan, who appeared a stereotypical rapist: a lonely young man with family problems and a history of trouble with women...