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...council this year has produced several quite thoughtful essays, an enormously pleasant change from an environment of criticism," says Fox. The dean attributes this thoroughness and willingness to cooperate to two factors: One is the high caliber of this year's crop of councilors and the other is the flexible student-Faculty committees which are filled by the council and where most of the council's proposals get consideration. The old 26-member Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life, which existed prior to the formation of the council in 1982, proved exceptionally unwieldy...
...thesis. Most undergraduate don't circle the globe for credit, but Janet W. Rich and Michael P. Adams wound up doing their thesis research in Australia and Peru respectively. The variety of senior theses is always astounding--here is a lively sampling of some of this year's crop that were researched far away from Harvard or dealt with unusual topics...
Schultes, however, is not under indictment for illicit drug trafficking, nor has he come in for criticism of his research. On the contrary, he is widely regarded as one of the world's most prominent ethnobotanists, and has made contributions to several areas of science ranging from medicine to crop development during his eventful 45-year career...
Most administrators agree that the current crop of leading conductors is too small and the temptations of jet travel too great for the widespread return of the old-fashioned music director like George Szell in Cleveland or Eugene Ormandy in Philadelphia. Says Gideon Toeplitz, executive director of the Houston Symphony: "If Ormandy were young today, nobody would expect him to stay 40 years with his orchestra." The globetrotting, if-this-is-Tuesday types are not about to be tied down. "It's easy to stand up and beat time and have fancy choreography and a good tailor, but that...
...State Department officials, however, Kimche denied that Israel had any intention of selling arms to U.S. clients in the isthmus. He said that discussions had been held on expanding technological aid to the region, like Israel's ongoing program to control pests in El Salvador's cotton crop. "I do not see ourselves as proxies," he said. "I see us as an independent entity...