Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have been deeply involved in the progress of the negotiations and have been in frequent contact with Sally Zeckhauser, theUniversity's chief negotiator," Rudenstine said...
...great weaknesses of Harvard's undergraduate education are that classes are large and impersonal and that contact with faculty is all often minimal. First-year seminars are only a token effort to change this, and many students who apply for these seminars are rejected...
...attitude Harvard takes with its academic curriculum. Students aren't just given a reading list and told to finish it. For $22,000, students are given professors that lecture on the topic and teaching fellows that run small sections on the premise that there is some advantage to personal contact...
...Harvard School of Public Health, they cannot be easily dismissed; the researchers, Roy Anderson of the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London and Robert May of Oxford, are highly respected. There are, however, legitimate questions about the study: for example, it presumes a higher level of sexual contact between older infected men and younger women than may actually occur. But even if it's accurate, some public-health officials would rather not know. Such gloomy talk, they fear, will persuade African governments to give up on much-needed family-planning programs...
Soon after his disappearance, FBI agents recovered letters demanding a ransom of millions of dollars from Exxon for his safe return. In one note the '90s-style kidnappers made a particularly unsophisticated request: that a cellular-telephone number be established through which further contact would be made. As the alleged culprits, Arthur and Irene Seale, later learned to their dismay, calls received on such phones can be traced...