Word: missions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...answer is yes. Like it or not, the houses fulfill too large a part of student life for them not to offer the same breadth of experience so frequently touted--and rightfully so--as central to the University's educational mission...
...case method is a crackling experience of involvement by both students and professors," says Walmsley University Professor C. Roland Christensen, widely regarded as the pioneer of the case study method at the B-School. The system, he says, represents "an important part of our total mission to do an excellent job of teaching...
...Harvard does what it does better than anyone," says Weil. "For its mission it's the best...
Filling that void is the mission of South Africa Now, a privately funded half-hour TV-magazine show that strives to keep the spotlight on southern Africa. The weekly broadcast is produced by Globalvision, a small independent production company, with the Africa Fund, an antiapartheid organization. Launched last April, the show airs on about 45 broadcast and cable stations across the U.S. Says Globalvision's vice president, Rory O'Connor: "We saw a need for a program on South Africa and decided to jump in both feet first...
...Wednesday some 200 members of the National Writers Union demonstrated in front of the Iranian mission to the United Nations. And in New York City's SoHo district, 21 American writers, including Norman Mailer, Susan Sontag and Joan Didion, met to exchange brave words and read passages from the Rushdie novel. Christopher Hitchens, a columnist for the Nation, received the loudest response when he said, "Until the threat of murder by contract is lifted, all authors should declare themselves as coconspirators. It is time for all of us to don the yellow star and end the hateful isolation...