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Joining him will be former Crimson track and soccer star Pena. On the surface, Pena exuded perfection throughout her four years of college. Not only had she been a National Merit Scholar, but she was an All-American soccer player at Harvard who competed in the 1980 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials...
...anyway? There is no difference between the decisions of Time's editors and the decisions any group of Harvard students could make around dinner. Well, Time does have a magazine with worldwide circulation, but that makes their presumptuousness even worse. To think that their opinions about twenty-five people merit this kind of attention is simply a collective power trip...
...Harvard says it has a nondiscrimination policy for its hiring practices when we know very well that affirmative action is discriminatory," he said. "We just have to hope that [the increased number of females and minorities awarded tenures] was done on the basis of merit and not affirmative action...
...Weed Out the Bureaucracy. Top managers have overseen the failure of modernization. They've had their chance. The quality of agents is declining. Morale is low. Broaden the merit pay system: the fact that managers have it but not those in the field creates an unhealthy rivalry...
...hope that the outcome of the search does merit to the openness of the process...