Word: anyways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often provided to clients of its own choosing-notably Kenya, Sudan and Zaire. Many black Africans fear that the U.S. is unable to distinguish between Communist-backed but legitimate liberation groups and committed Marxist revolutionary movements. Asks one Mozambican leader: "What are you Americans fighting here anyway-Cubans or white supremacists? We ask you for arms because we are fighting for majority rule, and you turn us down. Now we are fighting for majority rule with Communist guns, and you are still turning us down...
...Harvard ever sent out the wrong decisions to people? Jewett admits to two clerical errors in recent years in which students with similar names were mixed up. In one case, the student admitted by mistake was a strong candidate anyway and Jewett allowed him to attend. Jewett says the students did remarkably well here. In the other case, the student was clearly unqualified and the dean notified the student of the mistake and reversed the decision because he believed Harvard "was not the place" for the applicant...
...will also step up spending. David Levin, an economist at the U.S. Commerce Department, figures that state and local spending for sewer, water and recreation facilities will rise at least 10% this year. Texas, enjoying a surplus of $3 billion, plans no tax cuts (it has no income tax anyway). But during the next two years, it will pump increases of $1 billion into schools, $900 million into medical education, $528 million into roads and $525 million into health and welfare spending. Wisconsin will use $62.5 million of its surplus ($437 million for the 1977-78 biennium) to fund programs...
...Pompan, the freshman whiz from Encino, Calif., and a dead ringer for Starsky the T.V. detective, will not play. A bad ankle has left him indefinitely sidelined, but Harvard has the edge in singles, anyway...
Ethics courses may not make any difference in students' lives anyway. As Ralph B. Potter, professor of Social Ethics at the Div School, says, it is difficult to judge whether ethics can be taught at all. "Courses are great for disseminating ideas, he says, "but ethics must be assimilated through reflection. We cannot suggest to the public that we are going to turn out better people, for there is a mystery to what makes the ideas happen in people's lives...