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...late 1960s, Harvard built "Faculty Row" behind Pforzheimer House. It is now difficult for Faculty to find affordable housing close to campus, as property prices in West Cambridge skyrocketed in the 1980s. Faculty Row and other affordable housing is available for University affiliates, but more people request units than are available every year...
...This is part of a long trend on the part of this Court to cut back on Fourth Amendment rights," says TIME senior writer Adam Cohen. "In the 1960s and '70s, search and seizure rights were expanded considerably, and now, the conservative majority feels that protection has gone too far." And since many law-abiding citizens would probably hightail it out of a potentially dangerous situation or neighborhood, this ruling may open the door for a lot of unwarranted stop-and-search episodes. "This isn't like looking for blood dripping out of a car trunk," says Cohen. "Even innocent...
HIID was begun as a group of faculty charged with advising foreign governments in the early 1960s...
...Gandhian influence dominated freedom struggles on the African continent right up to the 1960s because of the power it generated and the unity it forged among the apparently powerless. Nonviolence was the official stance of all major African coalitions, and the South African A.N.C. remained implacably opposed to violence for most of its existence...
...Rupert Murdoch was born in Australia. Beginning in the late 1960s, he became the founder of the first truly global media empire, with properties ranging from newspapers to a movie studio to cable and broadcast television networks...