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...distant relative of the University president, rises at 7 a.m. each morning to work the streets ("There are ten pretty good corners in the district"). All morning he raises money ($16,000 so far--he's among the leading spenders in the most expensive state representative race in Massachusetts history...
...Allison necessarily has lost the ability to remain in close touch with everyone who walks through the polished glass doors on Boylston Street, something he seemed able to do in the program's more intimate days. Somewhere along the line, he has acquired a reputation among some as a distant but diligent manager. The K-School has come quite a ways since the summer of 1969, when a small group of "concerned faculty" patiently ironed out the details of a proposal for a public policy program. In that relatively short (in terms of Harvard) timespan, Allison too has come...
...adding, "He's a tenacious, dogged apostle of points of view, but is mature enought to modify or correct his point of view when opposing arguments prevail." Schelling points out that the dean's position often shrouds his inner self. "A lot of people probably find him a little distant, harsh, overbearing, or thick-skinned. To do his job he has to be--most of us are not good at giving people bad news, but as dean he is fully responsible for all the hard decisions," Schelling says, evoking questions about the island of Timor arrangement...
REAL VIOLENCE IS, for most of us, still hideous, threatening, mesmerizing. And when a cameraman caught the murder of newsman Bill Stewart in Nicaragua last summer, all the cinematic bloodletting in the world couldn't equal the impact of that hazy, distant shot of a rifle discharging into the prone body. It was a violation...
REAL VIOLENCE IS, for most of us, still hideous, threatening, mesmerizing. And when a cameraman caught the murder of newsman Bill Stewart in Nicaragua last summer, all the cinematic bloodletting in the world couldn't equal the impact of that hazy, distant shot of a rifle discharging into the prone body. It was a violation...