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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...famous Harvard professor active in public policy and spent hours in the Yenching library, digging up old correspondence, reading everything my subject had written, interviewing him and his colleagues. I would return to my room after the libraries closed and prattle on about my newest theory or the latest letter I had discovered to anyone who would listen. I ignored all my unrelievedly boring coursework and wrote the paper for weeks, finishing just before Christmas vacation. I gladly fled Harvard for home, where I spent the bulk of my time fighting with relatives, trying to convince them Harvard...

Author: By J.wyatt Emmerich, | Title: A Ticket to Ride | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

These incidents, among others, prompted the City Council to send a letter to the Board of Overseers protesting Harvard's "consistent poor judgement and insensitivity" in its relations with the city. And Cambridge officials are still worried about Harvard's future plans for its real estate. This election year will undoubtedly heat up the battle still more

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notes From the Underground... | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...slowdown was started by Democratic Senator Gary Hart of Colorado, who wrote a letter to Budget Committee Chairman Edmund Muskie urging him to set up a task force to study both the economic and environmental impact of Carter's $141 billion energy program. It was too vast and too complicated, Hart argued, to be approved without extensive research. "We ought to understand what all this means," he said. Muskie agreed and took the argument to Senator Henry Jackson, who wanted an omnibus energy bill as soon as possible. Despite Jackson, the Hart-Muskie view prevailed, and Jackson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Summertime Slowdown | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...came of the interview, she would be one smoke to the good. She remembers that Claman "told me to pretend that I got busted for pickpocketing and that I didn't do it and I was telling the cop about it. So I just let loose with some four-letter words, and I think that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's Whiz Kids | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...penetrated the fog of war in Hackett's brain, enough anyway for him to understand the need to place some human beings among the Phantoms and stereotyped initative-lacking Soviet junior officers in his narrative. Every so often he clumsily inserts a phony "personal recollection," most embarrassingly in a letter home from an American sailor...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Armchair Armageddon | 8/7/1979 | See Source »

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