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...life. Robert J. Murray has had first-hand experience with national security, from the Marine Corps through a string of positions in the Department of Defense. But only three months after entering the relative calm of academia by taking a job at the Kennedy School of Government, Murray was called back out to the front lines, this time to Beirut...
...visible connection between Harvard and Korea is this exchange of scholarship and of scholars. Last spring, Harvard's Mason Fellows a one-year program in public administration for middle-level officials from developing countries directed from HIID, traveled for ten days through Korea to learn from the Korean experience first-hand. Similarly, Harvard's Graduate School of Design announced last spring that a new program aimed at teaching land planning skills to foreign professionals would open with a group of eight executives from the Korea Land Development Corporation...
...Without Women (1927) and A Farewell to Arms (1929), he had found himself in the unique position of being not only a best-seller but also a writer whom first-line critics intensely admired and respected. Younger writers all imitated him. Wielder of a style of unmatched clarity and precision, master of the art of conveying emotions, particularly violent ones, with an effect almost of first-hand experience, he seemed to have established himself as the most powerful direct influence on contemporary literature. After these three books, however, came the slump. Apart from Winner Take Nothing (1933), a volume...
...action. At the last minute, when U.S. officers diplomatically suggested to the Lebanese that the naval guns had done the job, the jets were called back. Concerned that the Lebanese Army command had overestimated the danger, some U.S. officers went to the front lines the next day to get first-hand information. At about the same time, a Soviet-made SA-7 missile was fired at a U.S. Navy plane flying over the region but missed its target. Four more U.S. Marines were wounded during the week, and on Saturday a Marine helicopter came under ground fire...
Bisnow, now a second-year student at Harvard Law School, wrote Diary of a Dark Horse to give a first-hand account of Anderson's Republican nomination bid, and letter his independent candidacy. Upon reading it, one suspects he did so to make sure that the version that tells what really happened is Mark Bisnow's, and no one else...