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During Commencement week, staffers of Harvard's purchasing office do not spend much time conjuring up visions of sentimental alumni strolling through the Yard reminiscing about freshman year. For them, the week's events consist of securing such items as 50,000 folding chairs for Commencement and luncheons and 18,000 towels for visiting alumni...

Author: By Kelly S. Goode, | Title: 17,000 Bedsheets and 18,000 Towels | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...over power from Giscard on May 21, his first act as President will be to select a Premier from a number of candidates. The new President and his Premier will then name a Cabinet, which will function as a "transitional" government. Mitterrand has stated that this first Cabinet will consist of "those who have supported" him -which Socialists say excludes the Communists, whose backing did not come until the second round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Now for the Hard Part | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

...applicant's right to work in the U.S. Though the panel correctly pointed out that a Social Security card - the proof of citizenship most often asked for by prospective employers - is laughably easy to forge, the commission could not agree on whether the new system should consist of a "counterfeit-resistant" Social Security card or a new kind of identification card altogether. Some opponents fear that any sort of ID would be not only a nightmare to administer but, more important, too totalitarian for most Americans to tolerate. Simpson, for one, remains undaunted. Says he: "If there is nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Closing the Golden Door | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

Most M.B.A. programs, of course, consist of a varying mixture of lectures, case studies and improvised debate. At Stanford, where the curriculum ranges over the exotica of high finance, the class on power and politics in organizations devoted a session to the case of Mary Cunningham, the celebrated alumna of Harvard and Bendix who is now a vice president at Seagram. Perhaps because of former Dean Arjay Miller's long experience at Ford, Stanford tries particularly hard to blend the academic and the commercial. After learning that its students' writing ability was, as Business School Dean Rene McPherson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Money Chase | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

...response, the peculiarly 20th century phenomenon of the new-music ensemble has sprung up. Such groups consist of virtuoso players who come together for one purpose: to give contemporary music a hearing. One of the best-known is Speculum Musicae (mirror of music), celebrating its tenth anniversary this year with a series of three concerts at Manhattan's Symphony Space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Giving New Composers a Hearing | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

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