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Because a fair hiring process does not necessarily lead to diversity, those two goals create a potential conflict. That conflict, Wilson hoped, would spark a general discussion. "These are delicate matters to discuss with candor," Wilson acknowledged, "but if not in this Faculty, where, and if not now, when...
...Arts and Sciences in one room and give them a controversial issue like affirmative action to discuss. You'd expect to witness an intellectual discussion of the first magnitude, to see tempers flare, to hear compelling, well-supported arguments. You'd expect a subject like affirmative action to spark a heated debate reminiscent of the contentious Faculty meetings of the 1960s...
...provide much of the seed money for U.S. business. By giving out start-up cash to farsighted entrepreneurs, they can open whole new areas of business enterprise. Venture money has fueled the development of the computer industry through investments in Prime Computer, Cray Research, Tandem and other companies, helped spark airline industry diversification with People Express and Air Florida, and bankrolled infant gene-splicing companies like Genentech and Biogen...
...critical juncture. Nearly a year after Poland's striking workers had won an unprecedented set of liberal concessions from Warsaw's Communist bosses, the country was reeling under a deepening economic crisis, and the party was in disarray. Hard-liners were calling for repressive measures that could spark a new wave of labor unrest; radicals demanded sweeping reforms that some feared might send Soviet tanks rolling across the border. What was needed, above all, was a strong, credible leadership and clear policies for dealing with the country's problems...
...this is sketched lightly and crisply. But when the leader of the association appropriates the manuscript of Fleur's just completed novel in order to use its plot as a blueprint for manipulating the destinies of his hapless sect, Spark performs her characteristic sleight of hand. Her brisk little comedy turns out to hinge on mysteries of good and evil, reality and imagination. The feat may be done no better here than in half a dozen of her earlier novels, but it is quite enough to bear out Fleur's assertion that "everything happens to an artist: time...