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...need for clearer norms for safeguarding academic independence is particularly evident at Harvard. Real-world controversies and outside pressures have become a routine part of life at the University. Debates and demonstrations over public policy issues are frequent and often furious. And pressure to divest stock in companies that do business in countries with repressive governments has brought those debates back to Harvard's corporate home. Meanwhile, United States government agencies that provide funding for academic research are attempting to close the door on free and open scholarship, and the need for universities to lobby in support of federal...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Inevitably Entangled | 9/5/1986 | See Source »

...averting the immediate threat to the Commonwealth and forestalling any need to make a final decision on sanctions, at least until the meeting of European foreign ministers in mid-September. By that time the full extent of Pretoria's measures against Zambia, Zimbabwe and other African states should be clearer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Going Part of the Way | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

...thinness and neatness of the paint, so heartless looking when compared with the thick, spontaneous and (it was assumed) emotionally stronger surface of late abstract expressionism. None of that seems a problem anymore. Rosenquist's ingenuities $ as a formal artist have floated to the top. And the subject is clearer: the vicissitudes of a certain kind of American dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Memories Scaled and Scrambled | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

...rift in our communication made it clearer to me why it was so difficult to understand the situation in Europe. None of us really knew the facts. My friend argued that our jets were allowed to fly over France. But I believed the opposite...

Author: By William H. Berkman, | Title: Fear of Flying | 8/8/1986 | See Source »

...husband, Navy Commander Michael Smith, and six other astronauts. Only after release of the harsh conclusions of the Rogers commission did she criticize the "incredibly terrible judgments, shockingly sparse concern for human life . . . and some very bewildering thought processes" by NASA officials. Last week her feelings became even clearer. It was learned that she had filed a suit seeking $15.1 million from the space agency, specifically naming Lawrence Mulloy, who was then chief of the faulty solid-rocket-booster program. He had argued more forcefully than anyone else against the warnings of others that the cold weather could jeopardize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nasa's Woes Get Worse | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

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