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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...REMAINS UNCLEAR whether these reforms can be any more effectively enforced than the 1958 tutorial legislation. The reforms would include a clause providing for student-Faculty committees in each department to review the tutorials and notify the appropriate administrators when they fail to comply with the legislation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Faculty And Tutorials | 2/27/1979 | See Source »

...observance of its terms can be verified. He strongly rejects Republican arguments that such a treaty should be made conditional on more peaceful Soviet behavior elsewhere in the world. Insists Church: "Linking SALT to Soviet activities in Angola or Ethiopia makes no sense at all and is bound to fail. The treaty either serves our national interest or it doesn't. It ought to be judged on its own merits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Church and State | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...force the Faculty either to make significant changes in the CRR or abolish it entirely. At last week's Faculty meeting, the members of the class of 1980 who broke the CRR boycott were able to see the fruits of their labor enacted in Faculty legislation. They could not fail to have been disappointed. As Dean Rosovsky observed, change at Harvard proceeds with glacial speed. The CRR proves his point. What is unclear, however, is whether the CRR's glacier is advancing or retreating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRR: Token Reform | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

...Lydon's experiments fail not only because they are overlong but because they are, at base, ill-conceived; he is plainly playing with things he doesn't understand. haphazard electronic effects and innovation for innovation's sake do not succeed for experiment's sake; valid experimental music requires a knowledge and understanding, a directive genius, that this album simply lacks. However much he thinks producers are "rubbish" and superfluous, Lydon could only have been helped by the masterful touch of someone like Brian...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: The Rotten Image | 2/21/1979 | See Source »

...cited the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948 as an example of American and Western European reliance on narrow assumptions which fail to take into account conditions special to the African continent...

Author: By Cecily Deegan, | Title: Panelists Say Carter's Policy on Human Rights Cannot Apply to Underdeveloped African Nations | 2/20/1979 | See Source »

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