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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Third, there has been a widespread implication that people choose to participate in ROTC only for financial reasons. This is simply untrue. While ROTC scholarships are certainly an important avenue for students from from lower- and middle-income families, the desire to serve one's country comes before the need...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Misconceptions | 4/26/1989 | See Source »

Then there is the agenda-setting Hollywood elite and its preoccupation with national affairs. Ronald Brownstein, who is writing a book about Hollywood and politics, says most political money for Democrats comes from California and about two-thirds of that bankroll comes from Los Angeles. "Stars, though, don't want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Make Boring Beautiful | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...prepare students for responsible jobs in their profession. No curriculum ever achieves this aim in full--education is too imperfect a process for that--and many faculties are further from the goal than their presidents would like to admit. But it is particularly unlikely that a young professional school embarked on an ambitious new strategy will manage in two decades to build a truly satisfactory curriculum. For this is a process that can only take place through a gradual accumulation of knowledge and experimentation extending over a long period of time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annual Report Excerpts | 4/14/1989 | See Source »

If Harvard is so anti-military, then why does it honor those who died in combat with such monuments as Memorial Hall and Memorial Church? Military service is an honorable profession, and I have faith that the students and faculty at Harvard have only the utmost respect for our armed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROTC | 3/23/1989 | See Source »

The top-rated clinics can honestly boast that up to 17% of their patients become parents as a result of IVF. But some lesser operations apparently cite similar potential success rates in their come-ons, even though their own performance may be far worse. Says Geoffrey Sher, medical director of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Trying To Fool the Infertile | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

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