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Periodically the counselors take an informal quiz, corrected among the group, to be sure they haven't forgotten anything. In addition, they often rely on other or on literature to confirm their information
...confirm some of Ortega's worst fears, the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Democratic Force (F.D.N.) announced last week that it had launched a new "general offensive" against the Sandinista government. Meanwhile, a Nicaraguan radio station claimed that several hundred contras who support former Sandinista Leader Edén Pastora Gómez were massing on the Costa Rican border. The rebels said they were fighting in ten separate locations in southern Nicaragua, though the Sandinistas acknowledged fighting in only one. The rebel announcement came as something of an embarrassment to Costa Rican President Luis Alberto Monge. Even as the attacks...
Music Department Chairman Christoph Wolff describes the firm's work appreciatively, saying "they replaced the soft [sound] panels with hot surface panels and brought [Paine] Hall back to its original state." He says Harvard probably did not receive a bill for the small project, and officials confirm that the Leverett dining room work was a similar goodwill gesture...
...held still for the 1981 firings howled that Reagan was trying to pack the commission with a majority that would uncritically approve his civil rights record, and lately have questioned whether he has legal power to dismiss commissioners (the law is unclear). The Senate took no action to confirm his appointees. The White House stormed that the three had distinguished civil rights records and were being sidetracked only because they are opposed to school busing and racial and sex quotas in hiring...
Nevertheless, both sides acknowledge that the real problem lies in tax record-keeping. When federal auditors came across questionable transactions, often no records existed--or the researchers had long since left Cambridge--to confirm their validity. A. Simone Reagor, director of Harvard's office of sponsored research, recalls one case where a professor took a legitimate trip to Africa but had no plane ticket or other voucher to prove he actually made the journey. Only when he produced his expired passport with visa stamps did the auditors approve the cost of the trip...