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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million over ten years to finance CERT, Duncan said such a sum was quite proper and promised to see if the money could be supplied. He vowed that he would create an Indian affairs section in the Department of Energy and that CERT would get a firm answer to all of its requests within 30 days. And finally, he promised a thorough survey of mineral reserves in the Indian lands would be made so that the tribes can find out exactly what they have-and just how heavy a club they wield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Fuel Powwow | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...received a phone call from a man with a foreign accent. His message: "We now have Michele Sindona as our prisoner. You will be hearing from us." Several days later, the missing man's family reported getting a letter from his captors saying that he must answer to "proletarian justice." U.S. law enforcement officials remained skeptical and listed him as a "missing person" rather than as a kidnap victim. Said Italian Magistrate Guido Viola of Milan, where Sindona has been charged with a bank fraud totaling $225 million: "More likely, he has fled to some distant place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Missing Person | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

Harvard has more, and more intractable, red tape than any institution you'd care to name short of the federal government. Learning how to deal with it--how to take "no" for an answer, or how to persuade people you're only bending the rules when you're really breaking them--can be the most frustrating part of your freshman year. But if you don't learn how to do it now, you'll run into troublesome petty restrictions, over and over, until you do. It's at least as important as learning which Harvard building is which

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: The College's Bevy of Bureaucrats | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...recalls, Harvard was mentioned. This didn't happen with other colleges, of course. Of such inspiration, great literature is not made. "Would Henry Kissinger have been Secretary of State if he had been from Michigan State University instead of Harvard?" he asks. Unfortunately, Lopez can't seem to answer his own question. When you ask him to define mystique, he hesitates for a moment. Mystique, he says, is "an exaggeration of actuality." But hold on a minute. If there wasn't any substance to the myth, Lopez adds, "the mystique wouldn't exist...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: The Harvard Mistake | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...Harvard: a professor mumbling about arcane and vapid subjects, in love with the sound of his own voice, while I sat resentfully, one of hundreds. In sections, wan-looking graduate students droned on and on about trivial points in lectures while pathetically overeager students fell over each other to answer stupid questions. My knowledgeable proctor had screwed up again--he hadn't warned me that huge survey courses are probably the least challenging and most poorly taught classes at Harvard. I felt academically betrayed...

Author: By Susand D. Chira, | Title: Welcome to my Night-mare | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

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