Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Enrique Kirberg, Giorgio Solimano and Claudio Grossman presented Bok and Rosovsky with two requests Monday: that the University use all resources available to help find 2500 persons who have "disappeared" since the military coup and that Bok read the study they plan to make on the current Chilean situation, the Chilean academics said...
...Rican student organizations Mayo-Mecha and La Organization were present at the discussion. "I know students around here are concerned," Carlos Ortega, a graduate student at the School of Education and a member of Mayo-Mecha, said yesterday. "It's just a matter of publicizing exactly how we can help...
...problem of scholarly gobbledygook. Perhaps not, but Van Leunen's strictures may spur a few professors and scholars into reflection. The practice of footnoting every phrase or idea that does not fit into the text quickly be comes habit-forming.5 So do many of the tics that help make so much academic writing so impenetrable. Such habits should be broken...
...parent who observes court orders risks ending up the loser. In most states, kidnaping of children by one of their parents is not treated as a crime. Parents, even those denied custody in divorce arrangements, are exempted from the federal kidnap law. Lacking jurisdiction, the FBI almost never helps locate or return abducted offspring, even when state lines are crossed. Maybe, says Mrs. Downer, "I should tell them I've had three cars stolen, and their names are Joslyn, Heather and Terry." Says another victimized parent: "If my former husband stole a neighbor's cow, the authorities would...
Tosteson, who became dean of the Med School in July, said one of his goals is to improve the structure of the community of the Med School and help produce students with "character...