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Several Harvard programs, notably the Center for International Affairs (CFIA) and the Nieman Foundation, have been instrumental over the years in bringing refugees to Cambridge for temporary appointments. But notes CFIA Executive Officer Chester Haskell. "We don't see ourselves as a halfway house for political refugees." Haskell says fellowships are awarded not on the basis of scholars political beliefs or situation, but strictly according to whether our selection committee believes they will contribute in a research area. I've never noticed any policy that takes a person's politics into account. And his statements mirror those of other Harvard...
Seven women and five men will take a break from their journalism careers next year as recipients of Harvard's prestigious Nieman Fellowships, marking the first time in the 46-year history of the Nieman Foundation that women will compare a majority of the American Nieman group...
...child of immigrants from Barbados who owned a small trucking concern in Brooklyn, Maynard dropped out of high school to write for neighborhood and ethnic publications. In 1961 he joined the York (Pa.) Gazette and Daily as a reporter. He became a Nieman fellow in journalism at Harvard, then was hired by the Washington Post, "where I went from covering riots to covering the White House." He left in 1977 for the Berkeley campus of the University of California to establish a training program for minority journalists, which he ran, in his words, "like a bootcamp." Maynard applies the same...
...Weintraub] was over out of the [picket] line and I put out my arm as an indication to stay in line. She pushed me, and of course, I couldn't have that, and I arrested her," said the arresting officer, Sgt. John Nieman...
...next two weeks, Some will stay at a guest suite in Winthrop House. "He asked to stay in an undergraduate house rather than in the Faculty Club," explained James C. Thomson, curator of the Nieman Foundation for journalists, one of the series's sponsors. Besides preparing the lecture series--which he delivered in similar form at Georgetown and other universities--Stone is expected to meet informally with students and faculty members, along with making an address on Reagan's space-war proposals at Northeastern University in Boston...