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...Your Dukes. I can't think of anything funny to say about this landmark in the history of Western thought this week. At the Hasty Pudding through the end of the month...
...major recommendations offered by the Strauch Committee, the most important of which is the institution of equal access through a combined admissions office in time for the Class of 1980, are still landmark steps for the Harvard-Radcliffe community. If they are approved by the Faculty, the Governing Boards of Harvard and the Radcliffe Trustees, both institutions will have finally taken the steps that make total corporate merger and the eventual equality of women inevitable. Progress toward these two goals will undoubtedly continue to be all too slow, but the Strauch proposals would at least commit Harvard to a program...
...federal campaign-finance law. The measure puts strict limits on presidential campaign gifts and provides for public financing (through funds collected from taxpayers) of presidential campaigns. Though some experts fear the public-financing provision may be unconstitutional, the law's passage was hailed as a landmark in political reform, and the elections commission was due to begin its work...
Since passage of the landmark civil rights legislation in the '60s, the struggle for equality has changed from challenging the system to working within it, from getting laws on the books to making them effective, from confrontation in the streets to politics. In 1965, the year that Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, there were 72 black elected officials in the eleven states that formed the Confederacy; today there are 1,555. There are 16 blacks in the House of Representatives, as well as black mayors in half a dozen American cities with populations over a quarter...
...things...and he must therefore be allowed to use his language to this end." As an example, Fairlie cites Lyndon Johnson's politicking to get the civil rights bill passed; to a group of southerners he would talk in conciliatory terms, to liberals he would sound forth on the landmark nature of the bill, to old New Dealers he would invoke the progressive measures of a past president...