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Obviously, financial donations to Harvard are crucial to maintaining its position as the nation's premier institution of higher learning--not to mention the nation's richest. But if officials give into the temptation to sell bits and pieces to the highest bidder, how can the University maintain its institutional independence and its own ethical integrity? And how can Harvard preserve its newfound status as an institution based on merit and no longer just status and wealth...
...President has repeatedly expressed his admiration for Gorbachev's efforts at glasnost and perestroika. He has met with the Soviet premier four times in the last two years and hammered out a verifiable arms control accord which sailed through the Senate with relative ease. The once-fervent anti-communist even scolded hawks and former bedfellows like Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) for their stubborn resistance to any semblance of an arms control treaty. This shows just how far Reagan has come from his we-can't-negotiate-with-communists crusades of a few years...
According to the contacts, the arrangement was that Ghorbanifar would help bring the hostages home just in time to ensure Premier Jacques Chirac's victory in the French presidential election last month. Then, after Chirac won, Ghorbanifar would receive the backing he needed to regain his status as a world-class businessman. But Chirac was defeated in the election, and Ghorbanifar once more found himself out in the cold...
...seemed unlikely that the U.S. was prepared to pay as high a price as France did in negotiating the release earlier this month of its three remaining hostages in Lebanon. Last week newly installed Socialist Premier Michel Rocard announced that Paris was re-establishing diplomatic relations with Tehran after a hiatus of ten months, a move promised by ex-Premier Jacques Chirac's government in exchange for Iran's help in freeing the French captives. In addition, the agreement allegedly called for France to repay as much as $1 billion on an outstanding loan made by Iran. While refusing...
Felsen is a four-year starter and one of the nation's premier lacrosse players. In her sophomore year, she played on the U.S. National Team, the equivalent of a U.S. Olympic Team...