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...Overseers their right to veto appointments, degrees, and statutes passed by the Corporation...President Dunster saw the value of a system of checks and balances in University politics. Whereas many other colleges have only one governing board, their trustees, Harvard has two, and the workable board of seven must obtain the sanction of the cumbersome board thirty...
...some time, Americans dying from AIDS and cancer have been going to Mexico to obtain drugs not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The agency may have slowed the traffic last week by ruling that experimental drugs will be made more quickly available to patients with "immediately life-threatening diseases." AIDS sufferers could be affected, although an FDA source noted that as yet the agency knows of no drug qualifying under the ruling...
Subtitled The Documented Day-by-Day Account of the Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Contras, The Chronology is the maiden effort of the National Security Archive, a nonprofit institute opened in October by former Washington Post Reporter Scott Armstrong. Using the Freedom of Information Act to obtain Government documents, the group acts as a clearinghouse for journalists and scholars researching issues from nuclear strategy to Central America...
...during the day but then reappear in the evening in smart outfits from Paris to drink Scotch and reminisce about visits to Europe. "We have two personalities," explains one woman. But when the casual talk subsides, their businessmen-husbands complain about endless problems. Because hard currency is difficult to obtain, they have trouble buying raw materials abroad. The biggest war concern in Tehran is , the uncertain role of the Soviet Union and the U.S. in the region. Iranians are confident they can defeat Iraq but worry about the two superpowers. Iran's worst nightmare is that the Soviet Union...
...murder trial of Robert Chambers, 20. A handsome preppie college dropout, Chambers claims to have accidentally strangled Jennifer Levin, 18, when she hurt him during predawn sex in New York City's Central Park last August. To bolster Chambers' version of the killing, Defense Attorney Jack Litman attempted to obtain Levin's diary as evidence, characterizing it as a chronicle of her "kinky and aggressive" sex life. After reading the diary privately, the presiding judge ruled that it contained no information relevant to the defendant's case. By that time, however, Levin's character had been impugned and the anguish...