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When Dmitriev arrives at IREX headquarters on November 27, IREX officials will finalize his schedule and inform the Harvard Center for Urban Studies (CUS) if Dmitriev will vist the University, Julia K. Holms, an IREX coordinator, said yesterday...
...statement considerably brightened the treaties' prospects, said Majority Leader Byrd, whom Carter called to inform of the new understanding: "It goes beyond my expectations. I was very, very gratified. In my mind, it clears up the disputed points...
...dean says he wants to see the center develop educational demonstration projects in the Harvard community "that could inform the current public debate about health policy." Like teaching innovation, the development of demonstration projects seems to be a prime concern for the 52-year-old dean. When he addressed an annual meeting of the American Association of Medical Colleges in 1974, he said, "I propose that the academic medical community move independently to increase the quality and quantity of its efforts in educating the public about health. Each medical center could establish experimental programs in health education in its region...
...indication of the American obsession with sports is the large number of books published each year about sports figures, teams, or leagues. Most of these books are incredibly silly. At best they inform the reader of some little facts about an athlete previously known--like where he went to high school, what kind of sandwiches he likes, why he is great, and so on. In the history of sports books, only a few stand out, among them Jim Bouton's Ball Four, Roger Kahn's Boys of Summer and anything written by Roger Angell. A new book that decidedly does...
...upshot: only 33% of those arrested were ever brought to court for plea or trial. The report acknowledges that factors in the poor conviction record may include the shortage of policemen and such restrictions on police power as the still controversial Miranda rule, which requires the arresting officer to inform the suspect of his rights to counsel and to remain silent. But it puts the essential blame on the police themselves, especially for what the study asserts is an obsession with the idea of measuring crime-fighting efficiency only by the number of arrests they make. This policy, described...