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Similarly, the Council has not, as you insist, "backed down" on the tenure issue. If anything the Council has moved forward on this question. While the Council will continue to work through the Committee on Undergraduate Education, members of the Academics Committee have also arranged to meet directly with the Dean of the Faculty, Michael Spence, to discuss student ideas on tenure. Furthermore, a second proposal on tenure, which will appear before the Council shortly, reiterates in stronger terms our call for student participation in the tenure process. It also recommends that the University reintroduce associate tenure...
Rebel leaders and U.S. embassy officials in the region insist that they favor more coverage, but CIA officers apparently feel different. "There are turf and policy battles going on," says an observer familiar with the guerrilla operation. "The State Department wants to provide access for correspondents because it needs to convince Congress that continued contra funding is worthwhile. The CIA reckons the chances of winning are better without the press looking over its shoulder...
...military has long accepted the necessity of civilian review, but the leaders of the Cambridge police have not followed suit. Instead, they insist that they can and should operate independently of the citizens they serve...
...attraction of the topic does not explain why writers insist on making dramatic molehills out of this political mountain (were George Bernard Shaw alive today, he might have been able to inject some new dramatic tension into the form, but in all likelihood we would have gotten another Back to Methuselah instead of a Major Barbara). What prompts people like Kopit to encroach upon the territory of nuclear arms gurus like Jonathan Schell or Joe Nye, when Kubrick beat them to the atomic punch 24 years...
...University's chief labor administrator saidHarvard's antiunion stance will not affectteaching. Harvard "won't insist" that professorswho support labor become anti-union, said RobertH. Scott, vice president of administration...