Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Given their goals, it was not surprising that their fourth summit revolved around the ceremonial events rather than the one-on-one Reagan-Gorbachev meetings. With the Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty ratified, the potential Strategic Arms Reduction Talks treaty bogged down and the Soviets pulling out of Afghanistan, there was not much top-level business to transact -- or at least not much that could get transacted given the constraints. Aides dutifully produced seven agreements, a procedure that has become de rigueur for summits lest they be popularly judged failures. But the agreements mostly concerned such minor matters as nuclear-testing...
...Monday and Tuesday, Reagan took his human-rights campaign public. At the ancient Danilov Monastery, recently given back to the Russian Orthodox Church, he preached religious freedom: "We pray that the return of this monastery signals a willingness to return to believers the thousands of other houses of worship which are now closed, boarded up or used for secular purposes." At ; Spaso House, the American Ambassador's residence, the President was host to a meeting with 96 dissidents and refuseniks, including the Ziemans; some of them attended despite harassment and left fearing punishment. Said Reagan: "I wanted to convey . . . support...
Exhilaration is perhaps too strong. The superpower leaders had merely got through a summit that produced no breakthroughs but no backsliding either. Given the angry animosity that for so long divided the U.S. and U.S.S.R., however, that is no small achievement. As Reagan put it in his Guildhall speech, "To those of us who remember the postwar era, all of this is cause for shaking the head in wonder. Imagine, the President of the United States and the General Secretary of the Soviet Union walking together in Red Square, talking about a growing personal friendship." Even when summits end without...
...Because of [my] race and gender, I end up taking on more than perhaps I ought to," says Carolivia Herron, assistant professor of Afro-American studies and comparative literature. Although Herron also serves as Afro-Am head tutor, she has not received the customary reduction in teaching load given to head tutors because of the diminished number of courses in her department. She says the administration is working out a plan to ease her teaching responsibilities in the future...
Assuming that Harvard's rulers are enlightened despots, it would not be inconsistent for those who run it to be more open to student concerns in their policy deliberations. Still, that does not mean the hierarchy need follow the particular student passions of a given four-year cycle. While individuals come and go, the University, as it has been put in one well-worn formulation, will be here forever. It is the job of the Corporation and the administration to see that it gets there, that of the faculty to make it stand above the ephemeral and worthy of eternity...