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Fiscal year 1994-95 was a bright one for the University, but some clouds loom in the future, according to Harvard's annual financial report released this week...
...plans' ambition, the absence of hard numbers continues to loom over Republicans like a giant, baleful asterisk. Democrats maintain that when the Congressional Budget Office adds the figures in, they will fall far short of the magic, budget-balancing $270 billion. Critics are especially scornful of Gingrich's claim that $70 billion would be generated merely from seniors voluntarily joining HMOS...
...absence of Red October, do we propose to hunt? The value of such an investment can only be in its ability as a deterrent; this, in turn, can only work effectively if there is a clarified target. During the Cold War, such a vehicle made excellent sense; it could loom menacingly around the Soviet continent, ready for immediate deployment in the event of a security crisis. In the age of isolated ethnic and regional conflict, the deterrent value of one additional submarine is virtually nil. In fact, unless the conflict directly involves us, it will not even be a factor...
...Fall 1996 term approaches, one of the near-perpetual cause celebres occupying student activists at Harvard looks to loom large again. Ethnic studies represents one of the few issues on which students and administrators within the University remain far from consensus on a suitable disposition. While activists demand departmental status for the field, administrators refuse even to appoint a committee which will formally investigate the possibility...
Indeed, Rudenstine's first national address on the issue of research and student aid cuts comes more than a year after such threats began to loom...