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...week Germans modified their enthusiastic calls for an eastward expansion of NATO, pushing instead for a "gradual and controlled" opening in order to assuage Russia's paranoid generals. In Washington the dominant refrain was to urge the U.S. Administration both to reduce its personal identification with Yeltsin and to broaden its contacts within Russia. And Westerners everywhere read the returns as proof positive that Yeltsin's personal popularity did not translate into broad-based support for Western-style, free-market economy...
...Core was established to broaden students' minds through study in diverse fields. Yet, under the current system, science majors are actually discouraged from taking courses in other departments. Department courses in the humanities can't substitute for Cores, so savy science concentrators take Cores instead of making the effort to sample a different department. Meanwhile, humanities majors can still choose to take Harvard's own, watered-down version of "Biology for Poets" instead of a substantive course...
...fate of Shougang and other state-owned behemoths was much on the mind of China's rulers last week, as they launched a de facto turnaround in Vice Premier Zhu's austerity measures, coupled with a bid to broaden and deepen medium-term economic reforms. A communique issued by the party's central committee indicated that the government was loosening the restraints on credit and growth that it imposed only last July. But the statement also made a significant nod to the importance of the market as "a fundamental factor in the disposition of resources." And it went...
Richard Y. Chang '94 says OCS should make moreof an effort to broaden its focus into differentfields. "There is an immense diversity of peopleand not everyone is interested in investmentbanking or managing mutual funds," Chang says. "Myview of OCS is like Harvard itself, you have totake the initiative...
...chance to broaden his education came in 1940, when he won a scholarship to Wheaton College in Illinois, then as now the leading undergraduate institution of Evangelicalism. There he met Ruth Bell, the daughter of missionaries to China who herself wanted to go and evangelize in Tibet. Graham talked her out of it, arguing that she knew God wanted them to marry, so "I'll lead and you do the following...