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Perhaps the most well known program she has devised is the Learning From Performers series, in which prominent artists spend a few days at Harvard leading seminars or giving lectures about their careers. But the office has also sponsored longer-term projects, such as the Artists in Residence program, as well as performing the all-vital role of funding various student art-related projects like original plays and dances. And this year, Mayman and her staff are arranging a year long "festival to the arts," in honor of the office's 10th anniversary (See accompanying article...
...state levels have been declining for work in the child-abuse field even as the affliction appears to be getting worse. Private contributions have not closed the gap. Beyond the immediate practical needs to protect young victims and give them counseling and therapy after hellish experiences, research into longer-term solutions is suffering. "You cannot wait to help a child in trouble," warns Roy T. Bowles, a lecturer in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. "We must not allow the complexity of this problem to paralyze...
...Soviet Union predictably accused the U.S. of "threatening peace and international security." Most countries in the region, however, welcomed the Western help. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been deeply concerned about Libyan intervention in Chad, fearing that one of Gaddafi's longer-term aims is to destabilize the Sudan, Egypt's southern neighbor and ally. Gaddafi has sponsored at least two attempts to topple Sudanese President Gafaar Nimeiri. Last February the U.S. responded to suspicious Libyan air force movements near the Sudanese border by deploying AWACS planes to Egypt and the aircraft carrier Nimitz off the Egyptian coast...
...Poncet: "If the Soviets could deal with a West European partner that would detach itself from the U.S., it would help them impose a solution in Eastern Europe." He wondered if the SS-20 program was simply the mechanistic reflex of the Soviet military establishment or part of a longer-term political strategy. If Moscow's aim is political blackmail, he said, then Western Europe should begin to brace for a period of high East-West tension after the deployment of NATO's own intermediate-range missiles...
...course, the group authorship of Living With Nuclear Weapons may well have contributed to its embrace of what might be called moderate deterrence. Had Huntington been in charge alone, the book might well have seen deterrence as a longer-term good. Had Hoffmann written it, a more minimal deterrent--short of today's expensive parity--might have prevailed...