Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evidence that Harvard has been reluctant in the past to accept 'contributions' from donors who are said to have earned their money by immoral means..." If some students seem to be at Harvard because their forebears victimized the forebears of other students, does there not seem to be an element of reparation in affirmative action, despite President Bok's protestations to the contrary in his latest Open Letter. Yet articles continue to question the presence of minority students on campus, insinuating that those who had to over-come racial and income obstacles have fewer grounds for admission than football players...
...most controversial element in the $25 million U.S. military aid package for El Salvador is the accompanying contingent of 54 American military "trainers." They are naval technicians and helicopter pilots, assigned to teaching their Salvadoran counterparts how to use and maintain the sophisticated equipment the U.S. is providing. Just as important, they are teaching them the skills and tactics needed to fight a counterinsurgency war, combat for which the Salvadoran armed forces had never prepared...
...press argues that it needs untrammeled freedom to do its job, and that its watchdog reporting has often served the public well. But a public that has grown cynical about all institutions wants no element of society exempt from criticism or, as the Post did when Washington officials questioned whether "Jimmy" existed, complacently defending what cannot be defended. The press, builder and destroyer of the reputations of others, has its own reputation to look after...
Almost every technical element of The Hostage is relentlessly straightforward, from Jon Monderer's unobtrusive lighting design to Bundy's simple blocking. Chris Clemenson's set, while extremely well-crafted, poses a major problem for the show. High stacks of appropriately beat-up furniture and clutter surround a vast, empty space, thus forcing almost all action center-stage. When actors deliver their lines from near the bed that stands upstage they are sometimes inaudible and seem miles away, "swallowed up" by that infamous monster, the Loeb Mainstage...
Sally Zeckhauser, president of Harvard Real Estate, said on nonrent-controlled housing such as the Botantic Gardens apartments rents are determined by "fair market value" and reflect the spaciousness of an apartment and its location, among other considerations. She added, however, there is a "subjective element" in deciding the extent of increases...