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...conflicts of the past decade overlap: Christian against Muslim, Christian against Christian, Muslim against Muslim, Syrian against Israeli, sometimes one neighborhood block against the next. Memories blur. Was that building ravaged during February's battle for West Beirut or during one of last summer's ceasefires...
Brinkmann's appointment comes after long-simmering disagreements between members of the two branches of the department, which offer separate degrees and whose curricula rarely overlap. Faculty members have been described as often at odds over the department's goals, and the central administration has played an unusually strong role in recent years in tenure matters...
...What this plan will do is allow both schools to specialize in their distinctive areas of competence," said David M. Irons, director of external affairs at the K-School "There will be some overlap, but that's understandable when the whole purpose is to generate cross-pollination. "Hybrids are always stronger," he added...
Even after taking into account overlap between the two organizations, the figures suggest that one of every six undergraduates worked this fall to establish ties between Harvard and the disadvantaged. Says Ann Wacker coordinator of Harvard's Public Service Program: "The ongoing, week-to-week commitment of students [to the outside community] both during the day and in the afternoons has certainly strengthened and grown...
...American groups will participate in the 10-week international celebration of the arts, which will overlap with the 1984 Olympic Games. Scheduled to begin June 1, the festival is budgeted at $10 million and will feature London's Royal Opera, West Germany's Pina Bausch and Wuppertal Tanz Theater, film festivals, and art works from the Louvre...