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...Philippines, Delfin Go and Richard Fernandez were at opposite ends of a sharply divided political spectrum. Go, a member of President Ferdinand Marcos's Management Staff, researched economic issues and policy alternatives for government ministers. Fernandez, a union organizer and development specialist, was held for several months in a military detention center without charges in 1976. At the Kennedy School of Government, where they are part of a growing group of foreign students. Go and Fernandez air their divergent views over coffee. While they two remain ideological foes, the contact the School provides has made them personal friends...
...case of Fernandez and Go suggests that foreign students can have an important effect on each other as well As Fernandez puts it. "We came here to study, not to quarrel. The school provides an informal forum for some sincere discussion of our views. While we will remain on different sides, we get along very well...
...some students criticize the value of the school's curriculum--which focuses on primarily American case studies. Fernandez, who sent a memo about the curriculum to faculty members, points to several problems with using American cases. Most, he says, assume a very stable environment and a working constitution which are often lacking in the developing world. "They don't teach you to react in a catch-as-catch-can world," he adds...
...hood, sunglasses-is too outré to keep it from reflecting a passerby's face. No character is too quirky to escape shoehorning into the film's delirious narrative. Jules (Frédéric Andrei) is a postal messenger in love with an opera star (Wilhelmenia Fernandez)-a diva so protective of her gift that she refuses to record even her greatest triumphs. Jules will have none of this: he must live with his obsession, so he surreptitiously tapes one of her performances. But it is another recording-a prostitute's taped confession implicating several powerful...
...syndrome, somewhat similar to viral pneumonia, was at first dismissed by Spanish health authorities as a simple outbreak of "atypical" pneumonia. But Dr. Antonio Muro-Fernandez, director of Spain's National Center for Infectious Diseases, challenged that diagnosis. He thought people were dying from a hitherto unknown disease, not caused by virus-like organisms, and he was alarmed that the killer ailment would soon sweep the country. For his pains, Muro-Fernandez was suspended from duty, allegedly because he was suffering from "stress and exhaustion...