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...than 350 senior members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) will have a chance to respond at next week's full faculty meeting. FAS sent copies of the nine-page report this week's to each faculty member and the conclusions of the report are the major item on meeting's agenda...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: An Outside View of a Harvard Education | 2/27/1988 | See Source »

...idols raise some deeper questions about the people who conceive and swear by them. Lapham understands this, but his fixation on the ruinously addling idea of riches leaves him little time for explanations or the formulation of a higher ; system of values. His diatribe eventually comes to resemble an item of the consumer culture: amusing, momentarily appealing and supererogatory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: False Idols MONEY AND CLASS IN AMERICA | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

Nearly everyone who has called for financial reforms in the aftermath of Black Monday has a common item to recommend: tighter controls on stock-index futures. These relatively new instruments, which enable buyers to place bets on the up-and-down movements of the stock market as a whole, have been accused of intensifying the market's mood swings. But a turf battle has erupted between two Government agencies over which one deserves the right to crack the whip. Should it be the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which presides over futures trading in soybeans and pork bellies, or its sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Will Rule the Futures? | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

Soviet TV interrupted a serial film to broadcast Gorbachev's statement, assuring that his remarks would have the widest distribution. It was carried on the official Tass news agency and was the lead item on the evening TV news...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: USSR to Withdraw From Afghanistan | 2/10/1988 | See Source »

Since the president is already granted a general veto power by the Constitution, the item veto is unnecessary. With the authority he already has, a shrewd president can expose legislative big spenders and cut out the fat on spending bills--without completely realigning the relationship between the executive and legislative branches...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: An Appropriate Veto | 2/9/1988 | See Source »

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