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...effectively to campus unrest Bok turned Massachusetts Hall, traditional headquarters for the University, into a highly bureaucratized network of vice presidents and personal advisors. His system has, by and large, succeeded in moving the University back into smooth waters with Admiral Bok relying heavily on his individual captains to maintain the prosperity and academic success Harvard enjoys...
...military aid to El Salvador, he was in a difficult spot. Under a measure enacted late last year, the Administration must provide Congress formal certification every six months that El Salvador is improving its record on human rights and expanding economic benefits to the poor in order to maintain foreign aid to that strife-torn nation. But reports had reached members of the committee that human rights violations were still taking place. Enders thus made a careful pitch. Arguing that the Administration was by no means blind to the faults of the San Salvador government, he nonetheless insisted: "We believe...
Over the past century, Meharry Medical College in Nashville has trained 40% of the nation's practicing black doctors and dentists, most of whom have provided health care to the poor. Yet despite this vital contribution, Meharry has been struggling lately to maintain its mission, and even its existence. Over the past decade, the nation's larger and better-known medical schools have adopted affirmative-action admissions policies that have siphoned off some of Meharry's best talent. Hubbard Hospital, Meharry's teaching facility, has been running into heavy debt. Meharry students have not enjoyed access...
...special problems were to provide for peaceful coexistence between neighborhood children and bums and to make the place safe, easy to maintain and reasonably vandalproof. This meant that almost everything in the park would have to be clearly seen from the street. It also meant that play areas would have to be separate from the sitting and lounging areas. The shelters would be gazebos furnished with concrete tables and chairs. The benches would be made of metal. There would be bright lights at night. POD's design accomplishment is that none of this looks defensive or institutional. Indeed...
...remains fiercely controversial. Community leaders say more children will use it once the bums have their proposed second haven. Police complain that the park has done little to draw derelicts away from downtown or reduce crime. Some downtown businessmen maintain that derelicts do not deserve a haven anyway. Says Todd Bennitt, 33, the designer in charge of the project at POD, "The jury is still...