Word: profs
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...discount on cigarettes is particularly unfortunate because teenagers and new smokers have been shown to be especially sensitive to price changes. According to Prof. Richard Daynard of the Northeastern University Law School, "By keeping prices 30 to 35 percent below market prices, the military is doing more to encourage young people to take up smoking and continue...
Just before the Spring vacation I received a piece of mail from the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies (and thus I presume from my colleague Prof. Nadav Safran) which contained an editorial-page column from The Wall Street Journal (March 12) defending Safran in his dispute with the Harvard administration over his C.I.A. ties. This mail saddened me very much. It saddened me because I had hoped my friend and colleague Prof. Safran would take the high-road rather than the low-road in the aftermath of his dispute...
...editorial-page column mailed by the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies was called "Harvard's Point of Order," by Mark Helprin, identified as a novelist and political writer. I can only assume that Prof. Safran endorses the incredible argument offered by Mark Helprin which had three main points: 1) That Prof. Safran's ties to the C.I.A. violate nothing--neither the university's rules regulating such ties nor normative/ethical rules governing scholarship and intellectual life; 2) that normative/ethical rules governing scholarship and intellectual life are humbug anyway, especially when set against the imperatives of state; and 3) that...
Georges, the publisher of The Crimson, won in the news category for his article "Prof Gave CIA Censorship Right on Book," which reported on a Harvard professor's undisclosed contract with the Central Intelligence Agency...
...only weapon at the present time is prevention. The way to maximize prevention is a rational campaign to educate our citizens, both within and without so-called "high-risk" groups, as to what is known of the epidemiology of the HTLV-III virus. Dr. Ho, Dr. Forstein, and Prof. Brandt all stressed that the virus is extremely fragile and difficult to transmit. In ten million person-hours of medical care, said Dr. Forstein, including care before the HTLV-III virus was identified and medical workers began to take simple precautions, not one case of casual transmission has ever been recorded...