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...bear no animosity towards Epps," he said. "We just share a management problem...
...come to meet Carnesale, bring a firm handshake and a healthy store of determination. A towering bear of a man, he greets you with a shock of anarchic white hair and a ruddy face with a stiffly mischievous grin. Unlike Rudenstine's office, which is a picture right out of a designer's catalogue, Carnesale's has a certain stoic feel to it, with no personal effects or complications in decor--bearing a striking resemblance to how he handles issues...
Earlier in his career, Carnesale helped negotiate nuclear arms treaties for the U.S. government. Today he brings those skills to bear on his work with Harvard's unions and in handling other quicksands of the University...
Critics of affirmative action say the results in California and Texas bear out what they have been saying all along--that selective schools rely far too heavily on racial double standards. Some, like Abigail Thernstrom, co-author of a forthcoming book on race, used the new numbers to zero in on what she feels is the real problem: the public schools. "Our high schools graduate black and Hispanic students who are way behind whites and Asians in basic cognitive skills," she says. Admitting minorities with lower scores "lets these schools off the hook." That is why even such anti-affirmative...
...every night before the adventurers retire to their tents, they'll put their food and other fragrant items like toothpaste in a sack and hang it on a tree--lest the king of the woodlands, the black bear, pay them a visit while they sleep...