Word: modern
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...most powerful anti-Soviet crusader of the modern era has become its most determined summiteer. "If we have accomplished something," Reagan says in a telephone conversation with TIME from Spaso House, the U.S. Ambassador's residence, "if we have made war more distant, then that is a source of satisfaction." He says it so simply, so matter-of-factly. His manner is still rooted nine time zones west, in the Cornbelt, but his sympathy seems to have shifted east by a continent or two. Reagan is now Gorbachev's hiking buddy around Red Square, his point man as Gorbachev goes...
...travels. He has logged 45,000 miles in the past few months alone, traveling far from his home in Plantation, Fla. In March he was in Australia, demonstrating the fraudulence of channeling, which involves a supposedly long- dead sage uttering words of wisdom through the mouth of a modern-day proxy. April found him in China, invited by a science journal to help stem what the editor called "growing confusion between science and superstition." In San Francisco and Des Moines, Dallas and New York City, Randi spoke out for rationality in what he sees as an increasingly irrational world...
...History Department's sophomore tutorialprogram, for example, requires the same person toteach units on Medieval and Modern Europe and theUnited States. By definition, Brown says.sophomore history tutors cannot be experts inevery area they must cover...
...operations and costs of the modern university have grown more complex, Harvard has taken on all the attributes of a large corporation. The University has a growing $4 billion endowment, employs a mushrooming staff of more than 15,000, and supervises facilities that stretch around the world. If Harvard ever made a public offering on the stock market, there would be a free-for-all on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange...
Tactics, too, have changed. Instead of protesting in front of the final clubs, Theoharis says SWAT sought endorsements from the Harvard administration, from Radcliffe and from the Undergraduate Council. She says modern activists now resort to confrontation only as a last resort, when working within the system fails...