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Everyone agrees that the stalled construction does not signal a public policy Armageddon, but several professors, especially those dealing with the merger of the MPP and the CRP, are worried about how the school will house the students and faculty from the new program. Laurence E. Lynn, professor of Public Policy and chairman of the faculty committee hammering out details of the merger, refuses to even speculate about what will happen should the building not be finished by 1983; "I wish the building existed now. For every month delay, the strain gets worse," he says...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Running America From Cramped Quarters | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...material that it wants. It also has weapons and delivery systems to launch strikes into any part of Africa that it chooses. When the inevitable showdown in Southern Africa finally arrives in its fullest, the white regime will be able to threaten the people of the continent with nuclear Armageddon. Indeed it is doing so already. "South Africa's nuclear dominance is the result of a conscious decision of the regime to achieve military supremacy..." says Morton...

Author: By Winona Laduke, | Title: Harvard to South Africans: Let Them Eat Yellowcake | 2/26/1981 | See Source »

...most urgent problem does not concern the strategic weapons of Armageddon. There the U.S. has a rough parity with the Soviets and seems ready to respond to any vulnerability that might arise. But there now are critical shortages of all the more commonplace weapons that are essential to the kind of conflict that is most likely to occur: some sudden clash with the Soviets or their proxies on the borders of Central Europe, in the Persian Gulf or in the Middle East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Needed: Money, Ships, Pilots - and the Draft | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...Nagy responded that the option--which would reduce the "Armageddon mentality of finals" by urging professors to increase the importance of earlier work--"wouldn't institutionalize [sin] in the form of a make-up exam, which lets a student take an unfair advantage by saying he's sick...

Author: By Paul A. Englemayer, | Title: CUE Tables Nagy's Proposal Changing Make-Up Test Policy | 2/19/1981 | See Source »

While Cambridge residents have been waiting for the sirens and amplifiers placed strategically throughout the city to announce the coming of Armageddon, Hallice has been attending to disorders of a less imposing nature...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Civil Defense Prepares City for Nuclear Attack | 2/3/1981 | See Source »

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