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...December of 1981, Harvard Medical School officials announced a program to help develop the Aga Kahn Hospital and Medical College, Pakistan's largest medical school and teaching hospital, in conjunction with Palestinian spiritual leader Karim Aga Khan '59. Since then, Harvard Medical School doctors have dispensed valuable advice to Pakistani faculty. But Harvard's growing cosmopolitanism may turn out to work both ways. As events of last spring indicate, endowments and gifts from foreign countries, particularly Saudi Arabia, could develop into an important source of funding for Harvard programs. With that possibility have come questions about the conditions that could...
...Reilly notes that the $600,000 gift, the largest single donation to the photographic research project, satisfied both the University's and the Museum's standards for private philanthropy. "We would never be able to accept a gift with strings or conditions attached to it," said O'Reilly, "but in this case, there were no strings and no conflict of interest at all "She added that the Fahd gift in no way seeks to control the scope or direction of the Semitic Museum's research, and that the foreign grant was treated like any routine donation...
...Black law students, reportedly the largest number in a single year, were among the 51 new editors selected for the Harvard Law Review They were picked in the first year of the Review's affirmative action plan, adopted the previous year amid heated debate, which permits applicants to submit a statement of special obstacles they have faced...
...Sheldon Glashow, the Nobel Prize-winning Higgins Professor of Physics, said that Texas A&M University was dangling before him a seven-figure salary that would match the record for the largest financial package any American college or university had offered an individual. Glashow is apparently still weighing the tentative offer...
...percent of the respondents agree with the substantive clause of the ERA, "that equal rights under the law should NOT be denied on account of sex." Yet, by comparison, only 66 percent support the ERA versus 24 percent who are opposed. Ten percent are undecided, by far the largest group of undecided in 36 questions.... Respondents generally agree that women should have equal opportunities and be equal in all spheres, but 14 percent think that "women will end up with things they don't want--too much equality" and one-third (34%) agree that "there is such a thing...