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There are many first-rate Latino scholars at Stanford, UCLA, Berkeley, the University of Texas, Northwestern, the University of Chicago and, yes, even Yale. Yet Harvard, the leader and example for others to follow, falls far behind...
TIPTOEING ALONG THE FINE LINE THAT SEPARATES affirmative action from reverse discrimination is a delicate act. At Boalt Hall, the law school of the University of California at Berkeley, they thought they had it right with an admissions policy that since 1968 has aimed for an enrollment of 23% to 27% minority students. But last week, after a two-year investigation, the Department of Education announced that Berkeley had gone too far in accommodating minorities. The university denied any wrongdoing but said it would consider dropping ethnicity or race as a determining factor in selecting law school applicants from...
...cocktails are served with swizzle sticks that look like barbed wire, while on the ceiling a canopy of white plaster clouds floats across a starry night sky. "The world looks at America, and it thinks about the West," says Miller, who taught anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, before switching to the kitchen. "There's a spirit, a bravado, and Red Sage is part of that mythology...
...where Mexican and Indian friends of his French-Canadian family introduced him to the spicy exotica of non-European cooking. Travels in Latin America, Africa and Asia prompted him to experiment with ethnic accents, first as an assistant chef for nouvelle California guru Alice Waters at Chez Panisse in Berkeley and later in the same city at his own Fourth Street Grill, where he was one of the first chefs in the country to use mesquite wood for grilling...
Junior faculty members do not expect to stay past their three-to-seven-year appointments. Berkeley's Crews says the policy leaves Harvard with a staff of "brilliant young people who have a sense of possessing no future within the institution...