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WASHINGTON--Administrators representing 90 U.S. universities will weigh offers of land, buildings and other enticements next week as Japanese recruiters mount a high-gear campaign to attract American campuses...
...race is clearly on his mind. "What voters are tired of," he says earnestly, "is the ideological President." Presidents, he declares, should not be afraid of creative ideas, of searching for fresh approaches. "It's a state of mind. Kennedy had it. Roosevelt had it." Hart's Mount Rushmore face becomes very serious. "Voters," he says, "want competence. They want someone who knows Washington but is not a captive of it." Someone like Gary Hart? "Light bulb," Hart replies, a smile brightening his face as he strides into the artificial sunshine of the studio...
...mores for sexual conduct. Should AIDS spread in the most pessimistic proportions projected, there may finally sound a general alert, resulting in an increase in monogamy, in abstinence, in widespread acceptance of tough new rules of the game. But unless and until that point comes, the casualties may needlessly mount...
...crucial questions will not be answered soon, and public fears will undoubtedly mount as the incidence of AIDS continues to rise in all categories of people at risk. The point is to bear in mind that some activities are safe even if repeated often with an infected partner. Others activities that have been "safe" are not now that the virus has entered new populations. Unfortunately, nobody knows for sure which is which...
...THAT HARVARD has offered on land occupied by the St. Paul's parish rectory and parking lot at the corner of Mount Auburn and DeWolfe Streets includes plans to build some subsidized housing on the site. The University's main priority remains more housing for its own affiliates. But its willingness to provide some low-income housing--in the Cambridge market it has helped to inflate--speaks for the efforts of the neighborhood and Harvard groups that have pressured the University on its development plans in recent years...