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...programs seems certain to jeopardize the University's policy by forcing Harvard to pick up an ever greater share of the aid tab in years to come. We can only hope that the University will continue to give equal access in admissions the heavy weight it declined to accord to the morally imperative loan ban and the academically crucial Fogg wing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Backsliding | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

This spring's accord by Anglican and Catholic negotiators seeks to overcome these longstanding difficulties by the positive approach of examining how the single leader of a future reunited church might function. The Anglicans agreed that the Bishop of Rome could have jurisdiction to intervene in any part of the church under certain circumstances, and could issue infallible teachings on his own, with the proviso that they would later need to be received and recognized by the church. If anything, this accord was more unsettling for Anglicans than for the Vatican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Pope on British Soil | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

Behind that broad accord, however, there was great disagreement over how exactly to bring down the size of the deficit. Liberals on the board want to raise taxes and cut defense outlays, while conservatives side with the Administration in urging further reductions in social spending. Heller, a Democrat, called for the elimination of next year's third and final installment of the personal income tax cut, and for major savings on defense. Those and related steps, he argued, could whittle the 1985 deficit to a manageable $75 billion. That would be a major drop from the $233 billion deficit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight on the Consumer | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

...states that he is unaware that some tenants perceive that rent board members generally accord him a warmer reception that other, less experienced attorneys and most tenants. But he offers a possible explanation. "When I'm appearing before the board. I try to be courteous, which by the way is not a common virtue [among the parties] in there. A lot of people well at them [members of the rent board...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: A 'Stumbling,' 'Mumbling,' 'Kangaroo Court': The Cambridge Rent Control Board | 5/19/1982 | See Source »

...were asked to pick out the essence of Harvard's professed values, they probably would boil "veritas" and justice. These values we both cherish, and we have tried out best to live in accord with them. But we do no believe Harvard has done so. Rather, as we have examined the record and experienced this University, we have seen a long term pattern of failure to protect the civil liberties of students and faculty, cooperation with government witchhunts, discrimination in faculty appointments on political, racial and sexual grounds, and failure to take a strong and truly moral position against those...

Author: By Chester W. Hartman and Michael D. Tanzer, S | Title: In Pursuit of Veritas | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

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