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Also, the Harvard Institute for InternationalDevelopment (HIID), a body which primarily isresponsible for research and teaching aboutthird-world political economy, has had its budgetincrease three-fold in four years. The HIID, whichis funded by private grants, was recently moved toa new building next to the Kennedy School ofGovernment.
Harvard has had a rash of departures this year.Last semester the former Shattuck Professor ofGovernment James Q. Wilson left for the Universityof California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
"Students do not always want to live with theactions of their predecessors," Professor ofGovernment Roderick Macfarquhar said at themeeting. "Future generations participating in thisbody may have fresh ideas."Former Dean of the College JOHN B. FOX '59negotiates with students staging a sit-in at 17Quincy Street two years ago.
Commenting on Reagan's precipitous decline inpopularity polls, Assistant Professor ofGovernment Henry E. Brady, an expert on thepolling of American political opinion, said,"There's never been as great a drop in publicopinion...not even during the Nixon years."