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...variation on the Bournonville style effectively, and he is nicely complemented by Marianna Tcherkassky's sweet, limpid, almost blurred Sylph. The gorgeous sets by Desmond Heeley are drenchingly romantic, but Bruhn (wisely keeps sentiment in check onstage. A revival of Jerome Robbins' fierce, street-hip New York Export: Op. Jazz has corps kids of the '80s snapping their fingers just like gang squads of the West Side Story era. This ballet shows its age (1958) only in the costumes: the sweatshirts are plain, without any emblazonment...
...easy to understand why the confusion occurred. At that point, Third World officials were more accustomed to receiving direct help than they were at being taught to help themselves. In the years since, however, the University's international assistance has taken a dramatic turn. Harvard has practically ceased its export of experts, and has now settled on a role more appropriate for an educational institution: to provide curricular advice to Third World universities...
...School have set up curricula at universities in Indonesia, Philippines and Mexico. "Over the years, the emphasis of HIID has shifted from development advice to institution building," Perkins says, adding that "then our help was more direct and now it is more removed." Klitgaard says that "the export of the '80s is the training to solve problems, rather than the solutions themselves...
...Third World leaders each year, is flourishing in its 25th year and the Business School's International Teachers program is also thriving. Although less that 10 percent of the Mason fellows come from a strictly academic background, a substantial number of the program graduates become a channel of academic export upon returning to their home countries, says Nancy Pyle, director of the program. In developing countries, governments maintain closer links with universities, frequently asking former ministers to teach, Pyle notes. In addition, the contacts the fellows make with K-School professors often prompt them to ask for help in setting...
...general, the programs have been accepted, and through trial and error, Harvard in the 80s has settled on curricular advice as the export that will best aid developing nations. Despite the University's tendency to be low key--by using individual contacts, and by restricting advice to already existing institutions or to short-term seminars--the requests from developing nations keep flooding...