Word: note
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charles Kurzman's article of April 28th on "Rejuvenating Radcliffe" fails to recognize the important role that Radcliffe College plays for many women and men on campus, as well as its alumnae (note the plural feminine). First and foremost, I think that Mr. Kurzman misses the symbolic importance of maintaining Radcliffe the College. Demoting its status to a "Resource Center" would be to turn our backs on the history of women. True, the purpose of establishing Radcliffe was to provide women with a Harvard education, but along the way women discovered that that wasn't all they wanted or needed...
...matter of style and motives. A new brand of protest is on the market, and physicians are taking note...
...note with interest the establishment of a new program to prepare scholars to teach "applied ethics." I do not doubt that something like it is much needed. But I always thought that human life itself was supposed to be applied ethics...
...alumni mailing accompanying the ballots for the election, you enclosed two objectionable documents: a letter from you urging alumni to vote against single-issue candidates and a description of Harvard's present investment policy as it relates to companies that do business in South Africa. As you note in the letter, this year's election is unique because a slate of candidates, known as the Alumni Against Apartheid, are actively campaigning on a platform of divestment. The letter, written from your position as president of the Board of Overseers, paid for with Harvard University funds, and enclosed with ballots...
...first some West German officials, like other U.S. allies, believed the evidence to be indicative rather than conclusive. By week's end Chancellor Helmut Kohl declared at a press conference that "the attack also had a Libyan background." But he took care to add, "Please note that I said 'also,' and not 'only.' " German intelligence officials explained that they had been shown what seemed to be only partial transcripts of the Libyan messages intercepted by the U.S. Those summaries, they said, certainly pointed to some Libyan involvement but did not quite prove that Gaddafi had planned and ordered the attack...