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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difficulties in having the Board vote directly on divestment has prompted the petition candidates themselves to look for more long-term means of opening up Harvard's method of governace. Seidman said that she is disturbed by the power of the nine-member Executive Committee, which sets the agenda for meetings and makes special decisions such as choosing the membership for the joint committee...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: Divestment Activists Stymied at Meetings | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

Before 1986, students were not told their lottery numbers, and that change sparked attempts to outwit the system and calls to return to the old method or a random lottery...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: House System Faulted for Lack of Diversity | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...fortunately, the products of an education more idealistic and high-minded. It stresses method and approach rather than command of specific subjects and particular books; it is at once more humble and more demanding. Such a philosophy is the keystone of Harvard's curriculum, not only of the Core curriculum, but of the tutorial program as well...

Author: By Gary D. Rowe, | Title: The Education of Henry Adams, 1988 | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...question of the cause, it's a question of the individual method chosen by a cause," Daniels said. "The issue is whether any interest group should be allowed to put up a monument on someone else's property whenever and wherever they choose," he said...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Yale Alumnus Charged With Burning of Shanty | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

...trying to choose a contraceptive these days face a frustrating task. The list of safe, reliable alternatives seems to keep getting shorter. Driven by fears about adverse side effects, many women scrapped first the Pill, then the intrauterine device. Large numbers found themselves forced back to a centuries-old method, the diaphragm. Last week the Food and Drug Administration added a new option by approving the marketing of another ancient birth-control device, the cervical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Comeback of A Contraceptive | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

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