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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Education School summer program which trains some of the nation's elite educational administrators held its 20th reunion last weekend. In line with Harvard's usual flare for pomp and circumstance, the Institute for Educational Management (IEM) invited some very prominent speakers...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: A Blot on U.S. Education | 8/11/1989 | See Source »

...Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) decides to check into the matter to see if the DC-10 should be grounded. The conclusion? According to FAA Administrator James B. Busey, the nation's top aviation official, there is not sufficient evidence to keep the plane on the ground...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: The Safest Way to Go? | 8/11/1989 | See Source »

Chinese dissident student leader Wuer Kaixi, who reportedly wants to attend Harvard, was in Byerly Hall this week to take placement tests and the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement. I hope he passed the QRR. Can you see the revolutionary who turned a nation of a billion people on its ear having to take an introductory statistics class because he scored only...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: The Safest Way to Go? | 8/11/1989 | See Source »

...matter of resources; it's a matter of attitude. It is time America learned a lesson from the Vietnam War and stopped using conventional methods, military and diplomatic, that do not fit the present unconventional problems facing the nation today. America needs to put up a strong front and start fighting fire with fire...

Author: By Garrett A. Price iii, | Title: Democracy Is Not Impotency | 8/8/1989 | See Source »

America not only needs to continue such efforts, but to establish a systematic military policy, with the intelligence and political support required, to deal with terrorism. The task of defending America does not end at our nation's physical borders. The lives of its citizens and the right to promote its peaceful interests, free of extortionary influences, must be defended everywhere...

Author: By Garrett A. Price iii, | Title: Democracy Is Not Impotency | 8/8/1989 | See Source »

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