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Forced to reveal their method of implementing affirmative action in admission decisions, Texas law school officials admitted that they reserve about 15 percent of their places for Blacks and Mexican-Americans. And, if quotas weren't bad enough, Blacks and Hispanics are evaluated by separate admissions committees, using separate admissions criteria...
...just last spring. HBS announced sweeping reforms, including a decreased reliance on the antiquated case-study method and the implementation of a new trimester calendar. While these changes come too late for those who have already graduated, we hope the HBS administration will move quickly to improve the quality of the HBS experience--and ultimately improve graduates' satisfaction with the MBA program...
Last night Hanselman said he regretted the pantyhose incident. But he made no apologies for attacking the women's secret meetings: he said he agreed with their perceptions--but couldn't support their divisive method of dealing with the problem...
Whatever the mixture of cold-blooded calculation and religious fanaticism that lay behind the deaths, all signs of both method and madness pointed to Jouret as the prime culprit. Born in Kitwit in the Belgian Congo, now Zaire, he went to Brussels in the 1970s for medical training, then moved around the world studying acupuncture and homeopathy, a system of treatment based on minimum doses of medication. Along the way he found himself drawn to the spiritual arcana of the Knights Templar, a mystical brotherhood banned in France in the 14th century. Eventually he joined a French-based group called...
Some E.A.I. opponents charge that the situation has been improving and that radical action was premature; others admit the need for reform but question the method. "We are guinea pigs," says David Mulholland, president of the Connecticut Federation of School Administrators, "and if this experiment doesn't work, the people who will suffer are our kids." Behind all is the question of what will be the driving motive: Improving schools or improving E.A.I.'s bottom line? "This whole business about it being a win-win situation, that they can serve their customers and profit as well, is too glib," charges...