Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHILE HARVARD lulled in the calm of slow change and little protest this past year, the world saw dramatic triumph for the people of Vietnam. Our focus was turned away from the important issues at Harvard when, after thirty years of relentless fighting--and twenty years when the United States was the enemy--the National Liberation Front marched into Saigon victorious in its longstanding struggle for independence. And in Cambodia the Khmer Rouge won in its fight against the corrupt Lon Nol regime after five years of fighting...
...Harvard every academic department and administrative division has numerical hiring goals but those goals are not supposed to be the focus of their efforts. Instead, for every teaching appointment a department has to file a statement proving that it made a careful search beforehand and tried to find minority and women candidates, and for non-teaching appointments employers have to list openings beforehand to encourage a wide applicant pool. Once the search for applicants is made, whoever is doing the hiring theoretically proceeds to hire the best qualified person for the job; it is more likely that minorities or women...
...this context that the notion of meritocracy comes into play--but not necessarily into focus--in Riesman's account. Almost like the way "law and order" served as code words during the late sixties for those who wanted society to return to its former middle-class virtue, "meritocracy" becomes for Riesman a code for the sorts of policies and arrangements that sustained Harvard as a superior educational and research institution throughout the middle part of the twentieth century...
ALMOST A YEAR after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus the United States is still reluctant to focus on the reason behind the snarl in the eastern Mediterranean: a foreign army has deprived a republic--albeit just a splinter of land--of its independence and territorial integrity. When Turkish forces began landing on Cyprus last July 20, the official American response glibly called these maneuvers minor military actions. A corridor of land spanning Nicosia, the Cypriot capital, and Kyrania, another large northern city, had been taken before the Turks agreed to rechannel their pursuit of, as they phrased it, "political...
Members of the ACSR have said previously that the committee recommended disclosure only on issue which have been the focus of "major national legislation," such as equal employment hiring, political contributions and environmental protection...