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...time has come, however, for universities to broaden their focuses and play a more active role in the nation's public policies. With their endowments and resources, large faculties and promising students, universities have the potential stature and influence of corporations, religious organizations, and even parts of government itself...
...prepare you for these responsibilities byoffering courses on foregin languages and othercultures, by surrounding you with classmates formother lands, by providing fellowships and programsto study abroad. All these activities andopportunities have been conceived, at least inpart, to enlarge your tolerance for culturaldiversity, to awaken your interest in foreignlands, to broaden your perspective to include theentire world as your frame of reference...
Recent programs to broaden the University's 14-year affirmative action policy mark what many officials termed a reinforced effort to hire more minorities for top administrative posts...
While Gov. Michael S. Dukakis made a strong showing in a recent presidential preference poll of New Hampshire voters, political anaylsts said the race is wide open and the Massachusetts chief executive will have to broaden his national image if he wants to maintain his early popularity...
...complex that has earned him the nickname Sambo. "In his imagination he was going to be Rambo, but it backfired in his face," says Thomas Posey, director of Civilian Materiel Assistance (C.M.A.), an Alabama-based paramilitary group that expelled Hall 15 months ago after he pressed the group to broaden its anti-Communist activities. Adds a U.S. official: "Hall really thought he could just walk into the bush and blast Commies...