Word: good
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terror that arms control helps preserve and fine-tune. Whether he was fantasizing about a perfect space-based defense or the abolition of ballistic missiles, he was implicitly repudiating the system of deterrence that had kept the nuclear peace for 40 years. No wonder Mikhail Gorbachev looked so good. He took gimmicky American proposals, put his own spin on them, made them the basis of progress -- and then bowed to the ensuing applause. Reagan had his own curtain calls too. It was part of his extraordinary luck that Gorbachev came along to make some of Reagan's more obstinate policies...
...Administration also believed too much in what has become conventional wisdom, even among moderates: arms control is only one item on the larger agenda; the U.S. must simultaneously press the Kremlin on human rights and regional conflicts. All true. But arms control has always had a special role. In good times and bad, it keeps the superpowers talking about their one supreme mutual interest, the avoidance of war. Whichever side seems more engaged in that process is going to have an advantage on other issues and with other countries...
...Core, we have a pretty good record of recruiting teaching fellows from outside the Faculty of Arts and Sciences," says Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education David Pilbeam, a member of the Core Committee. Teaching fellows and assistants, he says, get similar performance ratings from students...
...what have students gained if their education was solely derived from friends, roommates or clubs. They could get the same experience from a new job and home, any other college or any good summer camp. Why go to Harvard and waste money, if all you seek is social experience...
This statement seems to capture both sides of the 'good Harvard-bad Harvard' coin. Most students find that friends, or extracurriculars, or being sociable, or living on their own constituted their best education. The flip side is inevitably Harvard's failure to educate--due to its large classes, distant faculty and ill-conceived Core curriculum...