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William Danvers, an aide to Rep. Robert Garcia (D.N.Y.) and another participant in last night's K-School discussion, endorsed the Hyde-Edwards proposal after he contradicted Brinson's statements about the difficulty in implementing...
...whether certain provisions of the Voting Rights Act should be extended to all states. Brinson, echoing the sentiments of many southern officials said such an extension would make the legislation more equitable, but Ron Brown, chief counsel for the Democratic National Committee and a former lecturer at the K-School, said "effective enforcement would not be possible" if the Act were broadened to cover all states...
Some would contend that it is the school's obsessions with growth which causes its problems. Donna Blackshear, head of the K-School Black Caucus, says, "I would attribute it partly to the fact that the school is expanding. People who are working on these issues are also working on other matters...
...K-School is not playing a zerosum game, as they would say on Boylston St. It will continue to grow, striving to become the Harvard Business School of the public sector. Few students and faculty would argue that it should restrict such expansion, since both reap the benefits of increased prestige, but some feel that in an effort to grow, it has forgotten them. Porter sums up the combination of concern and optimism. The K-School, she says, is "doing a lot of things. It's having growing pains...
...basic premise is this," says Albert Carnesale, a professor of Public Policy at the K-School. "If the two superpowers continue to do business in the nuclear power regime, eventually they're going to blow up the world. As he sees it, we need some recognition of the instability and futility of the arms race; if it fails, it's likely to fail catastrophically. And ultimately it's likely to fail," Watson refused last week to discuss his views on the arms race, but in a 1970 speech to the Bond Club in New York City he had this...