Word: macfarquhar
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...renounce his inherited peerage and run for the elected House of Commons. Nor, in all likelihood, would he seriously consider giving up his seat in the House of Lords for the sake of a constituency should the opportunity present itself once more, ventures Harvard Professor of Government Roderick MacFarquhar--who held a Labour seat in Commons--and other associates of Carrington. "He's an efficient, no-nonsense politician who never attempts to fool people by verbiage, but he's perhaps [indifferent] to the feelings of the public: he goes...
...main achievement during his tenure as Foreign Secretary was the suasion of Mrs. Thatcher that she had to deal with Mr. Mugabe in Zimbabwe. He should get enormous credit; they were absolutely against him," says MacFarquhar. "A minor but important human achievement was persuading Margaret Thatcher to accept the boat people" after visiting Hong Kong to guage their plight...
Safran, who holds a Government Department chair, competed against the three other tenured social scientists in a race which guaranteed representation to the humanities, natural sciences and social scientists. Roderick MacFarquhar of the Government Department, and Brendan A. Maher of the Psychology Department won the positions set aside for tenured social scientists. The vote tabulation was not revealed...
Professor of Government Roderick MacFarquhar, who is organizing the project, said "the time is right" for specialists to compare the two countries--which are home to 40 percent of the world's population--in light of their rapid growth and change...
...thesis, a direct challenge to the communist regime's "official" conclusions, would appear to have jeapordized his career. His thesis advisor, Professor of Government Roderick MacFarquhar, says Huang showed "considerable courage in going back and looking into official policy with a questioning...