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...ideology. These people, after all, are less like traditional refugees than they are like the Americans who went to Canada during the Vietnam War. They are fleeing the draft -- of their wallets, not their bodies. It's a smaller imposition, some might think. Those who fled in the 1960s were motivated, at best, by principled opposition to a government policy and, at worst, by a desire to save their own lives. The "new refugees" merely want to save money. And these financial draft evaders are not even barred completely from our shores. Under the rules, they are allowed to spend...
...Gore had just been read some of the letters he wrote during his years at Harvard. The letters, recently published in the New Yorker, were not all that remarkable for a student writing home in the late-1960s, a mish-mash of misplaced idealism and rampant cynicism about the U.S. Government...
...proposal for an Ethnic Studies department has been in the Harvard pipeline for years; the issue has been a hot one since the 1960s. Currently ethnic studies is stalled--it has been an ad hoc committee for several years, and the faculty has repeatedly deferred any attempts to upgrade its status to a standing committee or department...
...time of turmoil," Rosovsky said of the late 1960s, when Slichter was appointed. "The idea was to put people on the Corporation who knew how universities function from the inside...
...battle for ethnic studies in the curriculum dates back to the 1960s. More recently, students protested for more ethnic studies courses and specialists at a Junior Parents Weekend rally last year...