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...plan to revamp the disciplinary apparatus that punishes students won support from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences steering committee this week, the group's spokesman said...
...review of the faculty's disciplinary apparatus came after students objected to the 1984 revival of the long-dormant CRR to hear cases stemming from anti-apartheid protests. The CRR enforces a Vietnam-era code that outlines the rights of community members to freely express their opinions...
...WROTE MUCH the same thing in this space almost a year ago, when Paul Kirk came to the Kennedy School to tout his newly-refurbished party apparatus. After he did away with the messy minority caucuses and added the Policy Commission, I co-authored a position paper to help create a new image for the Democrats. But I wrote it on the naive assumption that they were not looking to mimic Ronald Reagan's message, but to create a new one they could actually call their own. Silly...
...Pentagon's Richard Perle was idling in southern France and the State Department's Paul Nitze was relaxing in Maine when the call came. This week these two polar opposites within the U.S. arms-control apparatus voyage to Moscow as part of a high-level mission to explain President Reagan's latest proposals and create enough concord to entice Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to set a date for a 1986 summit...
...under the sea was dawning in 1954, when National Geographic published an article titled "Fish Men Discover a 2,200-year-old Greek Ship." The author was a Frenchman named Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who in 1943 had helped to invent the Aqualung--the precursor of self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba)--and used it to excavate a vessel at the bottom of the Mediterranean near the island of Grand Congloue. "That opened the door to underwater exploration for the modern day," says Wilbur Garrett, editor of National Geographic, the venerable publication of the National Geographic Society, which has since financed...