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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Correct. But a small part. You overestimate the authority of a deputy of twenty-eight then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Encounter With the Past | 11/20/1985 | See Source »

...illustrate my point I refer specifically to the above-mentioned article on the Harvard-linked Pakistan medical school at the Aga Khan University. The founder of the Aga Khan University, Prince Karim Aga Khan, as the article correctly points out is a Harvard alumnus. The article is also correct in identifying the Aga Khan as a spiritual leader. However, he is not the spiritual leader of 14 million Pakistanis; rather he is the spiritual leader (Iman) of a Muslim minority group known as the Nizari Ismailis who live in various countries. In addition to Pakistan, these countries include India, Iran...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Khan-Sistency | 11/15/1985 | See Source »

...campaign policy] creates what we think is the correct impression, which is that Harvard people are very generous," said this year's voluntary campaign chairman, Financial Vice-President Thomas O'Brien...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: United Way Campaign Nears End of Drive | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

...RECENT EXERCISE in one-upsmanship exhibited by the Salient editors is all too easy to ridicule. The substantive point of the majority opinion is actually quite correct--Harvard divestiture from companies doing business with the USSR would indeed most likely prove an empty, even a foolish, gesture. Where the majority falls down is where the divestiture movement always falls down: If divestiture cannot be justified on purely moral grounds, it cannot be justified at all, because its results are impossible to predict; and if it can be justified solely on moral grounds, then there is every reason to support...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: No Moral High Ground | 11/13/1985 | See Source »

...those of you not mathematically inclined, this leaves Alice with one day a week to a) commute; b) recuperate; or c) (the correct choice) carry on an additional flirtation in Paris with a plastic surgeon (Francois Perrot) to whom she's a scrub nurse and whom she eventually accompanies for a few days in Nice...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: A Testimony Against Men | 11/8/1985 | See Source »

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