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...process of "utilizing Harvard," Niemans pursue a variety of academic and extracurricular activities. For example, current Nieman Bob Stanton, an AP science writer from the West Coast, spent much of the year as a bench regular in the Biology labs to observe and experience a scientist's milieu first-hand. Niemans Wayne Greenhaw of The Alabama Journal and Ed Williams, capitol correspondent for The Greenville, Miss. Delta-Democrat Times, offered an Institute of Politics seminar on Southern Politics. Another Nieman-sponsored course this Spring was a Quincy House seminar on journalism led by Bob Wyrick, a former Newsday reporter...
Nine members of Harvard Ecology Action traveled down to the forest last Saturday to get a first-hand view of the Hudson Highlands. They came back more convinced than ever that Harvard would be doing the area and itself a grave injustice by selling the land...
...Clabberville," of western Massachusetts farmers. The book is not a romance; it doesn't try to win you back to the land with the cheerleading tone of some pseudo-Movement drivel. The book is personalized journalism, comprising 28 pieces which Kramer wrote for the old Phoenix. These are honest first-hand sketches of the blessings and limits of rural existence, and the book's problems, like its virtues, stem from Kramer's half-observer, half-participant, stance...
...first conclusion is not too convincing, for there appear to be, particularly among more recent classes, large numbers of students who could care less about the CRR. In fact, most people in the Classes of 1975 and 1976 cannot fall back on experience or first-hand knowledge to judge the merits of the CRR debate. They repeat the objections of their predecessors--if they pay any attention to the CRR at all. To say that the CRR has polarized students in 1973 as it did in 1971 is to admit an importance which most undergraduates do not lend...
...ensuing decade promises to provide the opportunity for Americans to evaluate China's application of Communism first-hand. Stanley Karnow has helped lay the groundwork for future analysis of China. For those unfamiliar with Chinese history, the first 125 pages provide background data. For scholars, Karnow's massive research--completed at Harvard while he was a Nieman Fellow during 1970-71--will provide a starting point for the construction of broader theories. And for people solely interested in human interaction, the Cultural Revolution and its participants will emerge in the flesh...