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...project, and says today its connection with the Shah's government do not disturb him. But some criticize Harvard's involvement with RKSU. Shahrokh Rouhani an Iranian graduate student in the Division of Applied Sciences, says that while he doesn't disagree with the goal of enlightening a backward environment, a facility like RSKU "would actually have created an island in society." Rouhani argues that while "basic deficiencies" still plague Iran's high school system, a graduate research facility cannot benefit the Iranians...
...There was backward thinking in the whole project, so little good can come from it," Quinn says. But he adds that any $600 million project is bound to bring some benefits, and equal amounts of grief to those who are uprooted...
...billboards advertising Coca-Cola and Sanyo tape recorders, and at least a superficial measure of personal ease that came with the end of militant Maoist campaigns and marches. Still, Chinese intellectuals seriously question how much such relaxation can help to truly revitalize a country that is still poor and backward...
Aaron A. Estis '80, an Afro-Am concentrator, said the appointment was "one step forward for two steps backward" since Ewart Guinier, the only professor tenured solely in Afro-Am, retired last semester, and K. Onwuka Dike, the only tenured professor specializing in African history, will return to Nigeria next year...
...Players Association Executive Director Marvin Miller insists that the game has benefited from interest in high-priced stars. Says Miller: "In the years since free agency, baseball has set four straight records for attendance, gate receipts and TV revenues. Now they say we have to agree to go backward...