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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...under the management of Harvard's newly-inaugurated president, James Bryant Conant '13, the three graduate schools merged into the present-day GSD. Although the move was intended to unite the three schools, it was most notable not as a bureaucratic change, but for drawing two of the world's best known designers into Harvard's architectural womb...
Yamni, a 1960 graduate of the Law School, made his comments before more than 650 spectators at a symposium entitled "Oil Markets: Past, Present and Future--Personal Reflections of His Excellency Ahmed Zaki Yamani...
...decades ago it was fashionable to say, `to hold people responsible for their own behavior is to blame the victim.' That line just is not tenable, "saidLoury. He said the present welfare system had fostered behavior among the poor that perpetuates their role as an underclass...
...hard to say precisely why drugs are this year's public bane, just as it is hard to know why other threats that are ever present -- from nuclear holocaust to world hunger to environmental disaster -- seem to obsess the national consciousness in cycles. Perhaps it is the sheer insidiousness of crack, the newly popular, highly potent form of cocaine that can in short order transform the casual pleasure seeker into an addict. Perhaps it is the perception that drugs have spread into the workplace and the neighborhood, that they have arrived like the wolf at the door, or at least...
...President-in-waitin g. Millie, a Labrador- setter mix, came in the '70s with Lee Clearwater, a caretaker of Rancho del Cielo who died last year; next Taka, a purebred Husky, was given to the Reagans by friends. During the 1980 presidential race, an admiring Wisconsin couple presented the Reagans with Victory, a golden retriever. (Later that year they gave Victory's brother to George and Barbara Bush during the G.O.P. Convention in Detroit. His name: Veep.) Then came Freebo, a Doberman-retriever mix that originally belonged to Daughter Patti. When her itinerant life-style made it impossible for Patti...