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UNFORTUNATELY, THOSE in charge here continue to make decisions behind closed mahogany doors. They seem to believe those who pay the bills won't mind as long as they are distracted by a Yale choir singing Slavic folk tunes at a birthday bash where Harvard profs become what Professor of Astronomy and of the History of Science Owen J. Gingerich called, "a song-and-dance team for the alumni...
...news office produced an impressive press packet of historical materials for the more than 800 media representatives planning to attend the four-day birthday bash. Among the 68 descriptive notes in the package is one called "The Sweep of Harvard History." Four others provide synopses of the four presidents preceeding...
...Siddens never drew the connection between her address and Harvard's birthday bash this week...
...birthday bash--which includes symposia on 106 topics as diverse as Beethoven's String Quartet in F Major and the chemistry and physics of biological processes, three outdoor convocations and a closing ceremony in Soldiers Field Stadium that is expected to draw 27,000 people--will be the largest and costliest in Harvard history...
...feeling here was that the University is amajor force in American society, and that this wasa milestone in its history," says Alvin P. Sanoff,a U.S. News senior editor. The magazine also plansto cover the birthday bash itself, though"probably more as a Harvard celebration story thanas a big public policy story--barring somethingsignificant," Sanoff says...