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Four years later, the site on the Caspian Sea remains barren. Harvard abandoned the project in 1977 and there is still no graduate research facility in Iran. Lester E. Gordon, director of the Harvard Institute for International Development and a commission member, said at the time that the major issue the commission had to consider was the extent of Harvard's involvement in the project. Gordon said there were many reasons Harvard decided not to continue the project, including the objections that were raised by members of the commission against the Iranian government's violations of human rights...
...endless social programs and wasteful spending, begun under Roosevelt and propagandized by those like J.K. Galbraith and other college professors who accept good salaries and hope for tenure and long vacations, as well as sabbatical leaves, and yet so hypocritically criticize capitalism that provides this largesse for them," Gordon B. Worcester writes to his class. But Elliot, a lobbyist, emerges with an opposite view, "I reached the never-to-be-reversed conviction that Uncle Sam's taxing authority utilized to balance our economy by curtailing greed and dishonesty and developing social benefits and policies...was the only means which could...
...aborting herself). Art's lonely upbringing was entrusted to an unloving grandmother. He found an outlet in the clarinet at nine and switched to the saxophone at twelve. He proved such a natural that he was soon jamming around town with musicians like Zoot Sims and Dexter Gordon. At 17 he was married and playing lead alto with Stan Kenton...
...Gordon Liddy is unique. I hope...
...Secretary of State received a rousing send-off for his maiden diplomatic mission when the Senate, after less than four hours of hearings, confirmed his appointment, 94 to 2. Even the two nays (by Republican Conservatives Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire) were cast not in disapproval of Muskie but as protests against Carter's foreign policy. One Senator followed another in praising Muskie and he, in turn, brought them to their feet with an emotional farewell to the chamber in which he had served for the past 22 years. Said Muskie: "I look...