Word: interent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...underpriveleged or discriminated against. Such a step now, when admissions officials across the country admit that attracting qualified Black and Hispanic students is becoming more and more difficult, would send the wrong signal to these minorities and to the American higher education community, of which Harvard is the primus inter pares...
...possibly a distant relative, might step forward to collect them. O'Dwyer appealed to New York Daily News Columnist Liz Smith, who wrote about Parker's plight last week in her syndicated column. The result was a torrent of inquiries, including one from a wealthy Midwesterner who offered to inter Parker's remains on his country estate and another from an Arizona businessman who volunteered to create a special paint made from her ashes. O'Dwyer maintains that "we should dispose of her ashes in a fashion consistent with her stature in the arts." Meanwhile, he keeps the remains...
...planning somewhat less elaborate excursions this year and watching costs carefully. Says John Ueberroth, president of Minneapolis-based Carlson Travel Group: "Some cut a couple of days off the trip or look for special deals to save money." Catering to the bargain hunters, the New York City-based Inter- Continental hotel chain plans to slash rates by up to 60% next week at 30 of its hotels in 23 European cities and guarantee the prices in dollars. While they are in Europe, Americans seem to be paying closer attention than usual to such expenses as food, entertainment and gifts, which...
...Congressmen also found it hard to believe what they heard from Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, the point man for the Administration's policy in Central America. The cocky, abrasive Abrams confessed to deliberately misleading congressional committees last fall when he claimed that the Administration had not solicited funds from foreign countries for the Nicaraguan contras. In fact, Abrams himself had requested a contribution of $10 million from the government of Brunei, but he testified last week that he was not "authorized" to tell Congress the truth on the matter. Abrams also told the panel...
...perspectives. The ethics courses in the curriculum are supplemented through programs at Harvard's teaching hospitals, including ethics rounds, ethics committees in all of the hospitals and staff bioethicists at some of the facilities, says Lynn M. Peterson, assistant professor of medical ethics and a member of the inter-faculty ethics committee...