Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fresh from a Liberty Weekend meeting with Ronald Reagan, French President Francois Mitterrand flew to Moscow for a 3 1/2-day session with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. While disavowing any formal role as diplomatic messenger, Mitterrand clearly planned to try to advance the prospect of a superpower summit later this year. Although some progress was achieved on several other issues, Mitterrand's postmeeting summit forecast was rather gloomy: "It is impossible to say today if it will take place or when it might take place. Diplomacy still has a lot of work...
Another freshman who will also not be accustomed to such a demanding schedule is J. Drew Colfax '89. Colfax has never gone to a formal school and was educated at home by his parents along with two younger brothers and an older brother, who will be a senior here in the fall. "Harvard is the first time I'm going to be in a classroom situation," he says...
...formal classroom situation will be a big change. I'm not used to having set times for everything," he says. "On the ranch we would study 12 hours a day if it rained and on other days not at all. I have to prepare myself for the structured rigid schedule that will be thrust upon...
...months after the Committee on Women's Studies recommended that the field be offered to undergraduates as a formal concentration, Dean A. Michael Spence said late last week that he offered the tenured post to Olwen Hufton, a professor at the University of Reading in Reading, England...
Leifer has shot 27 covers for TIME on subjects ranging from prison life to America's love for cats. Most recently he photographed the heroic proportions of the U.S. aircraft carrier Carl Vinson by suspending a remote camera from the bow of the ship. Formal weddings are tame by those standards. The subject reminded Leifer of a Norman Rockwell illustration, so he took his camera somewhere it seldom goes -- to a portrait studio. He explained, "Roupen Agopian of the Bachrach studio let me photograph him photographing a young couple. I marveled that he took only 45 minutes to complete...