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...personalities and issues involved do not fully account for the impasse reached in 1973. Rubery Owen is at root a closed world, fixed in an intricate pattern of habits, rivalries, loyalties and hatreds. One effect of this has been to make the factory all but immune to change from the outside. Another effect has been to accentuate the profound divisions within the factory. "Inside these walls is our Berlin," says Peach. And within these walls, Hilda Peach refers to the Owens simply and without emotion as "the other side...
...were a high school star (and chances are excellent that you were) you will be a college crackerjack. Harvard prides itself on being an academic hothouse which offers all its promising seedlings the best environment for them to bloom in. Yet there were some that didn't quite take root...
...will tell you that it's not his fault; you should talk to Dean Rosovsky. Talk to Dean Rosovsky and he will tell you there's nothing he can do about it; it's the individual departments. But it even goes beyond the individual department level--the root of the problem is the individuals within the departments, the ones who are really making the decisions. Few of them are rabid sexists, almost all of them will go through the motions of complying with the affirmative action regulations, and some of them may even say that in principle, affirmative action...
...root of the bickering is a continuing struggle for power between China's radicals and moderates-a struggle that burst into the open during the 1966-69 Cultural Revolution and has never really been fully resolved. Radical groups are upset that many of the officials who were disgraced during the Cultural Revolution have been reinstated-most notably Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, the most powerful man in China after Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou Enlai. They also object to the moderates' emphasis on production and their slighting of ideological struggle. The radicals seem to be egging...
...Legal Services Corporation ultimately must resolve some philosophical questions about its mission. Conservatives favor handling small, specific problems such as divorces and evictions, but oppose the liberal inclination to bring broad, heavily researched suits that attack root difficulties. For the moment, though, everyone can at least agree on the need for cash. Last week the new board unanimously voted to ask Congress to increase its current $72 million budget by $25 million in an effort to bring C.R.L.A. and other weakened aid programs back to full strength...