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...expected in credible investigative reporting. In the first article major attention is given to intemperate remarks made by a few members of the faculty, omitting the opinions of other faculty and of students who are enthusiastic about the leadership which has moved the School into the forefront of teaching, research, and science on contemporary problems dealing with the health of the public. I would be interested to know the views of Professor Frederick Mosteller, Chairman of Health Policy and Management; of Professor Marvin Zelen, Chairman of Biostatistics; of Professor. Howard Frazier, Director of the Center for the Analysis of Health...
...whelming majority of the institution-signed a statement calling for a world-wide freeze on nuclear weapons. The statement, addressed to the nation's religious community, appeared as an advertisement in a nationally circulated religious magazine. The Div School's populations-both faculty and students-has been at the forefront of many other progressive movements as well. Some of the school's professors accepted burnt draft cards at the pulpit during the Vietnam War; others have led the movement to integrate the woman's perspective into religious studies...
...what it was expected to do, finishing solidly in third place (679.5), behind Princeton (1238.5) and Brown (996), and ahead of Yale (458). But for all four teams, the meet was really a rite of passage; a step from the comparative obscurity of the Ivy League to the forefront of Eastern collegiate swimming...
Several of Hart's allies have turned with similar zeal to the mishandling of America's economic problems. Bradley and Wirth, for example, are in the forefront of the move toward targeted tax cuts--as opposed to President Reagan's across-the-board reduction, which they view as inflationary and fiscally irresponsible. Selective cuts, they argue convincingly, will benefit ailing industrial cities in the Northeast and Midwest by encouraging the development of software, communications, and energy businesses...
...deal will push Coke into the forefront of the entertainment industry. It will give the firm access to Columbia's studios and its library of 3,000 films and 10,000 television programs. Five television stations and twelve radio stations that Columbia is buying are also part of the deal...