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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Affairs, says of the storms of the Haig era: "Neither Haig nor the White House was right in any of this. The problem is the system for making policy. It is neither designed for, nor capable of, making coherent policy on any major issue. Policy is all made ad hoc." It will take more than a change of the name of the Secretary of State from Haig to Shultz to overcome that difficulty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shakeup at State | 7/5/1982 | See Source »

...also disagreed over the role of the academic community in the NAACP's plans. Academics "do not have much of a role," Kilson said. The NAACP "hasn't learned to use the potential friends it has in the academic establishment, he explained, adding that the group prefers an "ad-hoc" association...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors Evaluate Plans Of NAACP | 7/2/1982 | See Source »

President Bok's open letters and recent collection of essays on the role of the university "create the impression that Harvard did indeed care about these important issues when in fact it didn't, "says Molyneux, adding that the new book attempts to take ad hoc decisions and justify them within a systematic framework. "Somehow every-time he thinks about a problem he comes to the conclusion that the status quo is right...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: Marching to a Fast Drummer | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

Once a department votes to recommend that Harvard ask a scholar to spend the rest of his life in the Yard, President Bok convenes an ad hoc committee of scholars from Harvard and other universities who carefully scrutinize the candidate's qualifications. After the committee's session, Bok himself makes the final decision on the candidate...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Only All-Stars Need Apply | 6/8/1982 | See Source »

...appears that Dean Rosovsky will himself inform the student of the College's action. But this is an ad hoc decision that does not seem to reflect any official policy, and the decision came only after the student publicly charged the College with ignoring her interests Deans Fox and Lewis continue the official policy of the College in not speaking about the case...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, | Title: All in the Family | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

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