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LAST WEEK IT became known that Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62 approved a proposal to bestow University Officer status on an oil-rich Texas couple in return for a $500,000 gift to fund the School's creative and worthy loan forgiveness program. A number of Harvard officials last week dubbed the K-School fund-raising tactics a "loose cannon". In the words of one Harvard official, the K-School "is on the make. They prostitute themselves more." President Bok needs to look into the ways in which money is exchanged for prestige University-wide. Dean Allison...
...argument there. Besides the lavish ego strokes that luxury vessels bestow, today's yachts satisfy almost every whim imaginable. The sun deck cradles a hot tub that can accommodate eight people, while commodious staterooms boast VCRs and private baths with Jacuzzis. Instead of a grungy galley, the superyacht has a gleaming kitchen replete with microwaves, commercial-size freezers and stoves, and trash compactors. The bionic boats pack every aquatic toy: water skis, snorkling gear, diving equipment, Jet Skis and sailboards. To help while away foul weather, a free-flowing bar is at the ready, and libraries are stocked with videotapes...
...constitutions of Eastern Europe bestow supreme power on the Communist Party. While charters from Bulgaria to Poland ring with declarations of human and civil rights, they all contain loopholes that permit governments to set such rights aside should the party so require. Thus many guarantees -- like the widely promised right to complain about government misdeeds without fear of retribution -- are honored mainly in the breach, and supposedly independent courts almost never hand down rulings the party does not like...
Mikhail Gorbachev continues to gain on his credibility problem. So dedicated an anti-Communist as Margaret Thatcher came away from Moscow telling reporters, "I would implicitly accept his word." Distinguished American visitors, not wishing to bestow an accolade they might later have to retract, settle almost in a chorus on a more neutral descriptive word: they find him "impressive." Andrei Sakharov, the physicist who was willing to starve himself to death in defiance of the Soviet regime, now disturbs other dissidents by his guarded approval of Gorbachev...
Lawyer Steven Lerman, who represents WYSP, put it most succinctly: "What was protected speech yesterday is not protected speech today." Yesterday's innuendo, he suggests, is today's indecency. Yet Lerman predicted that because the FCC has the singular power to bestow and withdraw licenses, broadcasters will be reluctant to jeopardize their franchises by testing the agency's ruling in court...