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...Overall, we admit about 14 percent of the applicant pool," he said...
...problem arose when the clubs decided half-heartedly to transform themselves. They gave up their secrecy and a lot of their bigotry. The Porcellian admitted its first Jewish member in the mid-70's and the Fox had a black president in the early 80's. But they refused to admit women, as did their counterpart Yale society, the Skull and Bones (of which George W. is a member). Currently, they exist as an unholy cross between fraternity and secret society...
...decades pressed the Vatican to acknowledge its failures to adequately respond to - and, some would argue, even its complicity in creating the climate for - the Holocaust. "The Jewish Anti-Defamation League is unhappy with what's contained in 'Memory and Reconciliation,' because they believe it still fails to admit the church's corporate responsibility for any complicity in the Holocaust," says Van Biema. "It lays the blame on flawed humans - although the document uses the term 'generations' to imply this wasn't simply a few bad apples - rather than admitting any flaws on the part of the church itself...
...something that I don't like to admit to myself and hence haven't tried to quantify," he says...
Though his advisers would not admit so publicly, media reporters have pegged West's high-profile role in the campaign as linked to Bradley's get-out-the-vote efforts among minorities...