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Despite the committee's depiction of a fractious White House staff, the Administration welcomed the release of the document because the Senators found no "direct evidence" that the President knew of the illegal diversion of funds from the Iran arms sales to the Nicaraguan rebels. From the start of the controversy, Reagan's protectors have been seemingly obsessed with establishing the President's lack of culpability in the contra connection...
...Mansfield tried to turn back progress at last week's faculty meeting. In the ballot to make Women's Studies a degree-granting program, Mansfield cast the lone dissenting vote of the entire Faculty of Arts and Science. The lack of any more organized opposition in the sometimes fractious faculty demonstrates how far Women's Studies has come as an academic field beyond the walls of the Yard. Now it's finally time for the discipline to continue its advances within them...
...start of the fractious meeting it seemed that any agreement might be scuttled by Kuwaiti Oil Minister Ali Khalifa Al-Sabah and his Saudi Arabian counterpart Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani. Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, OPEC's two richest members, had insisted on bolstering their production by some 10%. In the end, Saudi Arabia accepted no increase for itself and instead offered to donate its share of the 200,000 bbl.-a-day production hike to Kuwait...
...music had already put them in a groove all their own, but after three more albums, the band had become a little fractious inside its own world. There were quarrels over songwriting credits, with Byrne almost always assigning himself primary authorship. There was dissatisfaction about Byrne's working on his own without the band. Harrison concedes that that period "was a point of maximum tension" but says the cure was for the other Heads to work outside the band as well. "You take the major step of all doing solo projects," Harrison says, "and then you stop worrying about apportioning...
...leadership is that early on he appointed five new vice presidents (Harvard never before had more than one) to be responsible for such chores as finance and alumni relations. Thus, while Bok somewhat diffidently did his share of fund raising, he could concentrate on the traditionally fractious faculty, which was dispirited and divided after the student clashes of the 1960s...