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...fact, there was more public fuss over an entirely separate issue: NBC's broadcast two weeks ago of Drug Wars: The Camarena Story, a docudrama about the 1985 murder of American drug-enforcement agent Enrique ("Kiki") Camarena. The mini-series, based on the book Desperados by TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon, suggested that the killing was sanctioned at the highest levels of the Mexican government...
Except in rarefied intellectual circles, articles that appear in the Cambridge, Mass., journal Daedalus (circ. 14,000) seldom stir up much of a fuss. But a pseudonymous piece appearing in the quarterly's winter issue is kicking up a storm. Titled "To the Stalin Mausoleum," the pessimistic assessment of the Soviet Union's ability to transform itself both economically and politically is obviously modeled after George Kennan's famous 1947 Foreign Affairs essay, in which Kennan outlined the concept of containment of the Soviet Union. While Kennan wrote under the byline "X," the Daedalus author identified himself -- or herself -- only...
Casey stresses that the type of lobbying in which Harvard engages tends toward this type of technical change to legislation, watching out for the University's interests without creating a big fuss...
What a difference a few months make: South African Archbishop Tutu's candidacy for the Board of Overseers created quite a fuss among alumni last year, and both sides of the divestment issue took turns at dishing out the rhetoric. Robert P. Wolff '54, who directs the pro-divestment alumni group which nominated Tutu, often said Tutu's mere presence on the Board could force Harvard to divest completely from South Africa-related investments...
...fuss over alleged university tuition- and price-fixing, many have asked since a broad U.S. Justice Department probe became public last August...