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Along with thousands of students throughout the world, I looked towards Harvard as an example of what a great university is. But an article in The Crimson ("The Missing CUE," Oct. 29) changed my attitude. The article explained how CUE--a committee in which students and faculty express their opinions and ideas--has been unable to meet so far this year because of faculty apathy towards the committee. Faculty are simply not volunteering to serve on CUE, or--this happened last year--they are volunteering, and then not attneding CUE meetings. This apathy is inexcusable, for how can a university...
...would Contributor John Skow know about New Hampshire and its politics [Oct. 29], gazing at us natives from his lofty perch in snooty New London? Skow can poke fun at us. However, when the chips are down, name me one President in the past five decades who made it without first doing damn well in the New Hampshire primary...
...sick is the Shah? Ever since the deposed monarch suddenly arrived in the U.S. on Oct. 22 and was whisked to a Manhattan hospital, questions have been raised as to whether the trip was really necessary. Last week doubts erupted into a debate that occupied the attention of the physicians inside New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center as well as student picketers on the street outside. The Tehran government and anti-Shah activists in the U.S. charged that the Shah had used his illness as a political ploy to seek permanent sanctuary here. In the hospital, some staffers suggested sotto...
Lagging 30 points behind Brown in the polls, Nunn attacked Brown's expensive ways (Brown had outspent Nunn $2.8 million to $1.2 million as of Oct...
Ohira's troubles began with Japan's Oct. 7 election. Over the objections of other members of his Liberal Democratic Party (L.D.P.), he had called the vote eleven months earlier than he had to in hopes of increasing his strength in the Diet's 511-member lower house. But some frank talk by Ohira about higher taxes frightened voters, and the party's representation in the Diet slipped by one seat...