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...Harvard-based Program on Negotiation--headed by Williston Professor of Law Roger Fisher is a university consortium designed to advance the theory and practice of conflict resolution. Members of the group have been at the forefront on developing the new negotiating technique, which has been put to its first real test over the past year in nearby Malden, a crowded, working class industrial city of 53,000 generally skeptical of Ivy League planning...
...OVERRIDING value for Hispanics lies less in the substance of the bill than in the experience, for the first time, of being at the forefront of major legislation. Although the Congressional-Hispanic Caucus 11 members are hardly commensurate with the 6.4 percent of the population that is Hispanic, the group has begun to make itself felt as a force to be reckoned with at the national level...
...divestiture issue has been at the forefront of campus debates in the past six years, as students and some faculty have pressured Harvard to make a stand against apartheid by selling all its stock in companies operating in South Africa...
That attitude has helped make Brazelton "responsible for bringing the newborn into the forefront of our curiosity," says Lewis P. Lipsitt, professor of Psychology and Director of the Child Study Center at Brown...
...Jackson campaign, unavoidably, has brought questions of race back to the forefront of American politics. The candidate himself has not used race in a demagogic way, as George Wallace did in 1968. Indeed, Jackson has tried to add other colors to his Rainbow Coalition. But the electorate is polarized nevertheless, with blacks voting overwhelmingly for Jackson and whites voting overwhelmingly for white candidates. "A certain latent racism has come out," says Gary Willis, Henry Luce Professor of American Culture and Public Policy at Northwestern University. "People say, 'Whenever I hear somebody stir up crowds, I think of Hitler...