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...attempt to answer "misleading statements" and "in the spirit of reconciliation and for the sake of clarification," the letter outlined Harvard's commitments. Among them were continued support for the autonomy of public service organizations such as the House and Neighborhood Development (HAND) program. The "modest changes being made now should not disrupt any existing public service activity or program," the letter stated...
...University's revenues grew by 6.5 percent, but expenses only increased 5.7 percent last year. Harvard also reduced its operating deficit from $13.3 million in 1993-94 to a more modest $3.3 million in the past year...
...there is no deep structural problem or crisis in the arrangements for public service at Harvard. Indeed, during the review of 1994 we were told by many students and others that the support public service at Harvard was working well and did not require a major overhaul. Accordingly the modest changes being made now should not disrupt any existing public service activity or program...
Lewis was out of town yesterday and did not see the students protest, but Lewis and Theda Skocpol, chair of the FAS committee on public service, sent a guest commentary to The Crimson yesterday in which they called the restructuring of public service and the hiring of Kidd "modest changes" which "should not disrupt any existing public service activity or program." (See commentary, page...
...physical, chemical and technological systems. The fanciful animals that first appeared on nature's sketchpad remind Kauffman of early bicycles, with their odd-size wheels and strangely angled handlebars. "Soon after a major innovation," he writes, "discovery of profoundly different variations is easy. Later innovation is limited to modest improvements on increasingly optimized designs...