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...pension plan in a field like academia, where there is a high turnover, must be designed so that professors who stay at Harvard for only a few years can take a certain amount with them...
...left without a director since the departure last fall of Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh, is searching for a candidate with experience in elective politics who will emphasize academia's links with the outside world, said committee chair Hale Champion...
...course of his lengthy academic career, Leyser has spent time in the United States as a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley. His stint at Harvard this spring was arranged before his retirement last year from Oxford, so the scholar decided to prolong his stay in academia for at least another semester...
There is much in this grand old man of Cambridge that will be missed. Probably the mayor's best known attribute among Harvard students is his rhetorical fondness for bashing academia. Others may know him for his attacks on condo developers, sanctimonious do-gooders and bureaucrats, or his promotion of worthy causes from world peace to Italian home cooking...
That is the worrisome analysis of U.S. experts in Government, industry and academia. Virtually every week seems to bring fresh evidence that Japan is catching up with the U.S. -- and often surpassing it -- in creating the cutting-edge products that long were the turf of U.S. firms. Last week the American Electronics Association reported that from 1984 through 1987 electronics production rose 75% in Japan, vs. a paltry 8% in the U.S. Most ominously for the U.S., Japan made its gains in increasingly sophisticated components, such as the disk drives and optical-storage devices used for today's higher-powered...