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Harvard's deans spend it: $700 million a year. Its investors amass it: a $3.5 billion endowment. Its rah-rahs raise it: $359 million a few years back...
...first thing would be to allow students to sign away the food share of never-eaten Sunday breakfasts. This alone would amass a small fortune. But the dining service won't allow it. Students who rarely eat even weekday breakfasts could be allowed to donate the cost of those missed meals to charity. But the dining service won't allow it. Students could even be allowed to sign away meals on the nights of their house formals, when most go out on the town. But the dining service won't allow it. The hell with the dining service...
Staff Writer Richard Stengel, who incorporated the bureaus' vivid reports in his story, immersed himself in books and papers on the subject by criminologists and social scientists. Senior Editor Walter Isaacson supervised the project. Says he: "It was important to amass as much research as possible. Black-on-black violence is a very sensitive subject, one that black leaders are only now willing to talk about." White agrees: "I thought it was time to bring it out of the closet. It's time, long past time, for the killing to stop...
...studying the black market in nuclear technology in 1978, when he ran TIME's Cairo bureau. Says he: "That's when I first heard that Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's strongman, was trying to get a nuclear weapon." After his reassignment to South Asia three years ago, Brelis started to amass notes about developments on the Indian subcontinent. He found that some of the most reliable sources on the Pakistani nuclear program were Indian officials and scientists. (Fittingly, the Pakistanis were prime founts of information about Indian nuclear progress.) Says Brelis: "In the end I thought that the often | bewildering...
...back with a Star Wars program of its own? Surely the Kremlin will not sit back and wait for the U.S. to share its technological breakthroughs, as Reagan has offered. Nor are the Soviets likely to rely solely, or even mainly, on their shields; rather they will continue to amass nuclear spears. The result could be the worst of all possible worlds, one that combines imperfect defenses and escalating offenses...