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AT THE BEGINNING of this decade, Harvard embarked on an aggressive campaign to patch up its longstanding differences with the Cambridge community. University officials set up neighborhood advisory boards to solicit local residents' opinions on town-gown matters. Cooperation between Harvard and its neighbors peaked in 1981 during the planning...
Harvard students have long called for the University to sell its holdings in corporations doing business in South Africa. Divestment protests peaked this past spring with a series of rallies and demonstrations, two of which resulted in disciplinary proceedings currently pending against participants.
Some see bilingual education as potentially worse than that. Former California Senator S.I. Hayakawa believes the result of language maintenance could be to foster divisiveness like that of the French-speaking separatist movement in Canada that peaked in the 1970s. As an intended antidote, he introduced and still lobbies for...
Since 1980, the thrift industry has been struggling to pull out of a slump caused by an interest-rate spiral that peaked with a prime rate of 20.5% in 1981. Competitive pressure forced the thrifts to pay 10% or more to bring in deposits, but their income remained far below...
Audiences have been building, meanwhile, for Desperately Seeking Susan, a funny, likable film comedy in which Madonna co-stars (with Rosanna Arquette) as a rambunctious East Village vagabond whose free life becomes the obsession of a repressed New Jersey housewife. Madonna's current 28-city, 38-date concert tour, of...