Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard hauteur annoys outsiders, including, perhaps, the present White House, which last March announced that Ronald Reagan would not appear at this week's gala after Harvard made known that the President would not be given an honorary degree. This monumental snub, say critics, came from a university whose sons hold themselves in too high esteem. Secretary of Education William Bennett (J.D., '71) claims he was influenced more by Washington's Gonzaga High and Williams College than by Harvard, and doubts there is a Harvard network or indeed a Harvard point of view. "You will find Harvard...
Diplomatic moves were afoot as well. The White House confirmed that Vernon Walters, shifting from his role as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., will travel to Europe this week to explore the effectiveness of present economic sanctions against Libya and possibly urge that stronger measures be taken. Syria's President Hafez Assad turned up in Benghazi to meet publicly with Gaddafi and declared that Syria "stands with all its potential by the side of Libya . . . to face the threats of America...
...July, when President Victor Paz Estenssoro heeded a Washington request and invited U.S. troops to participate in raids on Bolivian drug labs. Now Paz Estenssoro faces a crisis over tin. When more than 5,000 miners marched toward the capital city of La Paz last week to protest present layoffs and future mine closings, Paz Estenssoro responded by declaring a state of siege. Bolivian soldiers promptly halted the advance. Meanwhile, police arrested at least 162 persons, including labor leaders and heads of radical left-wing parties...
Three of the Law School's past and present deans yesterday offered wide-spread criticism of current legal education, generally agreeing that law schools should de-emphasize legal philosophy and provide students with more practical training...
...presence of women on campus is not the only change in Harvard that Pusey has witnessed in his lifetime. Although the University decided to employ police in the 1960s to curtail protests, the present administration has seemed loath to take similar measures in the face of protest...