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Several Harvard programs, notably the Center for International Affairs (CFIA) and the Nieman Foundation, have been instrumental over the years in bringing refugees to Cambridge for temporary appointments. But notes CFIA Executive Officer Chester Haskell. "We don't see ourselves as a halfway house for political refugees." Haskell says fellowships are awarded not on the basis of scholars political beliefs or situation, but strictly according to whether our selection committee believes they will contribute in a research area. I've never noticed any policy that takes a person's politics into account. And his statements mirror those of other Harvard...
Recruiting for all four services combined is running at 101% of authorized goals, having reached 338,200 last year. (Overall military strength last year was 2.1 million.) "We've been closing out our quotas halfway through the month," says Sergeant Larry Soper, an Army recruiter in Tulsa. The retention rate is now so high (68% of those finishing their tours in fiscal 1982 reupped, and the percentage is even higher this year) that the services are refusing some re-enlistment applications and reducing annual recruiting targets. "They come in here and say to us, 'I want this...
Parker's hairline probably diminished five year's worth in the space of ten minutes Sunday, owing to the suspense of this year's Eastern Spring. First came the early stages of the race, with four or five boats jockeying for the lead. By the 1000-meter mark, the halfway point, Harvard had established a slim lead, but it was still anybody's race...
...varsity lights suffered one of the more disappointing races of the day for Harvard. Billed as a race that would go down to the wire between the three boats. Princeton rewrote the script for the Goldwaithe Cup by making a move near the halfway point and then steadily increasing its lead, finally winning in open water...
There is a time-honored tradition-in negotiations over nuclear arms, labor contracts or divorce settlements-that both sides come in with their maximum demands, then eventually settle for something approximately halfway between. START, however, is unique in the history of Soviet-American negotiations in that the American position has become increasingly less negotiable as time has gone by. Rather than introducing sweeteners to the rather sour pot in Geneva, the Administration has added new features to its position that are even less acceptable to the Soviets than those in the original proposal...