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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study, said he, "is that I cannot be accused of personal involvement in atrocities." With rare candor, Waldheim plaintively told the Vienna daily Die Presse, "Yes, I admit, I wanted to survive" by following orders. He added: "I have the deepest respect for all those who resisted. But I ask understanding for all the hundreds of thousands who didn't do that, but nonetheless did not become personally guilty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Austria : Kurt Waldheim: I Wanted to Survive | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

Speaking Matilda. Is the press asking the wrong question? Maybe it's Cuomo's wife who's running. The Governor called a Washington friend last week to ask a special favor: Would the friend arrange for Wife Matilda to address the National Press Club in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On The Grapevine | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

...questionnaire will also ask a question of dubious value-- if students are satified with their "Harvard Experience." The UHS consultant responsible for the survey said they are doing this because, "in the past we have found that a student's general dissatisfaction with Harvard itself has a direct correlation to a general dissatisfaction with UHS." Such a skeptical attitude toward students with complaints is not good for any organization hoping to examine the quality of its services. This attitude could lead UHS to make the mistake of discounting any negative feedback from students who aren't satisfied with their"Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Counting on Care | 2/20/1988 | See Source »

...highlights of the musical comes at the beginning of the play when Harvard preps Jim (James P. Connolly) and Eric (Eric Pulier) try out for a fashion gang. Dressed in wool and corduroy the two lamely rap to the tune of Beethoven's Egmont Overture: "People ask us where we get our looks/ And we tell them the Brothers Brooks...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: F-F-F-F-Fashion (Huh!) | 2/19/1988 | See Source »

...where were the student activists? Who is going to ask the important ethical questions at Harvard if not this rag-tag bunch of annoying protesters? Where was the faculty? Obviously, some of the most respected Kennedy School faculty members approve of--and are--teaching the CIA. The rest...

Author: By Mitchell A. Orenstein, | Title: Absence of Intelligence | 2/18/1988 | See Source »

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