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...report--written by a committee headed by Ford Professor of International Security Joseph S. Nye--was designed primarily to ensure the rights of speakers invited to Harvard while maintaining the audience's right to dissent. It was prompted by two 1987 speaking events in which speakers were shouted down by hostile audience members. University officials had feared that the incidents would deter others from coming to Harvard...
...Privileges? Part 2 Steiner's seal of approval also did not carry much weight with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences this week. At a meeting this week, the full Faculty voted to send back to his office major sections of a report on free speech guidelines prepared by Ford Professor of International Security Joseph S. Nye. Steiner's office has already reviewed the report twice, but there's always room for improvement...
...especially striking woodcut, "Things American," by Gerd Arntz, is a decidedly unflattering representation of a hypocritical America. It depicts a lynched Black man, a row of "bathing beauties," and a Ford production line in simple, heavy lines and basic colors. The juxtaposition of the three images is, to say the least, a biting commentary on the morality of our culture...
Some 6.9 million new American cars were equipped last year with a handy feature: intermittent windshield-wiper systems, which allow drivers to fine- tune the speed of their blades. Since 1982 Ford alone is believed to have sold millions of cars containing the device. But now the automaker may have to pay for every single one, which could mean a windfall for a retired inventor in Gaithersburg, Md. For twelve years, Robert Kearns, 62, tried to persuade courts that he invented the electronic device for the wiper system. Last week a federal jury in Detroit ruled that Ford had infringed...
Andreas Meyer-Landrut, chief of staff to the West German president, Joseph S. Nye, the Ford Foundation Professor of International Security, and Guido G. Goldman '59, the director of the Center for European Studies, agreed that the unification question will ultimately be decided by the German people...