Word: fair
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...reprehensible as Harvard's legacy policy is, we can do little but shake our heads and curse as long as Harvard students remain content to accept a spoils system as a substitute for fair and equitable admissions...
TEXAS STATE FAIR, Dallas. Grab your 10-gallon hat for the largest (1989 attendance: 3.5 million) and splashiest state fair in the U.S. Texas-scale events include laser shows, pig races, college football in the Cotton Bowl and the entire touring company of the musical Cats. Through...
...America possesses a special instrument of change and reform -- what might be called the civic crusade. These grass-roots movements about particular issues have repeatedly forced the more rigid political system to follow: in the fight against racial discrimination, the movement for women's equality, the drive for fair treatment of homosexuals, the environmental movement, the campaign against smoking and many others. Not everybody is comfortable with all these crusades and the rights they champion. But they represent an extraordinary American capacity to change perceptions and habits...
...fair that Asian Americans are not getting tips whereas athletes and legacies are," said Quan...
Melanie R. Thernstrom '87 received a fair amount of press during her senior year at Harvard when she was offered the largest advance ever made by the American book industry for a first novel. A number of publishing houses bid for the creative thesis she had written as an English major, an intensely personal work about the disappearance and murder of her childhood friend...