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Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, Kenan professor of government, has been enjoying some unaccustomed good publicity lately. A picture of Mansfield, over the caption "Prince of the Conservatives," graces the cover of the current issue of Harvard Magazine. The New York Times is writing a profile of the outspoken professor, who over the years has been repeatedly vilified by students and fellow Faculty members for his views on everything from homosexuality to grade inflation. Cultural conservatism, it would seem, is suddenly en vogue at Harvard...
...West cheered a second great victory over communism, the oligarchs got even richer and a lot more powerful ? and Boris Yeltsin?s political survival became intimately linked with their fate. What the current crop of financial scandals points to is that in the '90s rush to exorcise the ghost of Stalinism, the distinctions between government, legitimate business and organized crime became dangerously blurred in Russia. "Crime, politics and business in Russia feed off each other," says Meier. "Russia?s huge criminal organizations were born, and continue to thrive, because of their access to political power...
Vitagliano said her organization, in light of recent events, considered adding cluster bombs to its international treaty in progress. But, citing the current opposition of the United States to the land mine treaty, among other reasons, she said it would not be feasible at this time. However, Vitagliano did say that "one of the fears is [that] as the mine ban treaty becomes universalized other countries may see cluster bombs as a replacement...
...Undergraduate Council president Noah Z. Seton '00--who included UHS reform in his council campaign platform--said he sees the current reforms as a positive step...
...activism that gave rise to the Afro-American Studies Department 30 years ago was very different from current movements, says Admissions Officer David L. Evans...