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...fact, Harvard's governance structure is unusually effective at preventing the types of conflict of interest mentioned in the article. Where other schools place the wealthiest alumni on their governing board, Harvard places these alumni more often on the Committee on University Resources (COUR), which has relatively little power to determine policy. David Weiden...
Musical Banquet. Bruce Fithian, tenor and Olav Chris Henriksen, lute and theorbo, perform music of 17th-century Europe, including French airs de cour, English lute songs, Italian monodies and scherzi lute and theorbo solos. Sunday, October 3, 3 p.m. Somerville Museum, Central St. and Westwood Road, Somerville. $5 for students. Call 666-9810 for more information...
Although Wolfe touches on space-race politics and the psychology of cour age, his views are neither unconventional nor meant to be. As our finest verbal illustrator of trends and fashions, he is interested in the truths that lie on surfaces. These truths are not superficial, though they are frequently overlooked in an age partial to overexplanations and psychic temperature taking. A 19th century novelist of manners would have understood perfectly. Readers in the 21st century will too, when they turn to Wolfe to find out the kind of stuff their grandparents were made of. - R.Z. Sheppard...
Critics of rent control like Walter J. Sullivan say flatly, "rent control is ruining cour city" by keeping the tax base low. Sullivan said last week the tax rate could be even lower and that rent control hurts landlords while supporting the students and faculty who can afford to pay higher rents...
...experts, of cour se, were still vital to our story. Moments after the cover was scheduled, New York Correspondent John Tompkins got a call from C. Jackson Grayson Jr., an old friend who had headed Richard Nixon's Price Commission and is now helping to plan President Ford's upcoming economic summit. Says Tompkins, who worked for Grayson while on leave from TIME in 1972: "It was serendipity-my first interview came completely unsolicited." In Washington, National Economics Correspondent John Berry put in a breathless week shuttling among meetings with various Administration advisers and policymakers. "Mine...