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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fortunately, Harvard has developed a tradition of individualized instruction through freshman seminars, tutorials, course sections, and senior theses. These elements of the curriculum are all strongly supported by faculty, alumni, and students alike. But almost all agree that further progress needs to be made. For example, in a survey several years ago, students, faculty and alumni came to remarkably similar conclusions when they were asked to rank in order of importance more than 30 possible reforms of the College...

Author: By Derek C. Bok, | Title: Bok on the Core | 3/21/1978 | See Source »

...cornplete after three years of work, may reach $15 billion-twice the price of the Alaska pipeline. TIME'S Moscow bureau chief Marsh Clark flew from Khabarovsk on the Manchurian border to a construction site on BAM's eastern end for a look at the work in progress. His report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: For a Lot of Bucks,BAM! | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...Soviet "analysis," following from the Moscow Nixon meeting, reached me on July 6-in other words, more than a month late. This analysis explained that no progress had been achieved on the Middle East question in the Soviet-American talks-just as I had predicted during my Moscow visit late in April-in view of the fact that it was the U.S. election year. What was even more odd, the Soviet analysis conveyed to me by the Soviet ambassador said nothing at all about the failure to ship the requested weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: In Search of Identity | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...followed up the progress of the war from the Operations Room I became conscious of a serious development: the United States was using us for the air-bridge she now established to save Israel. El Arish became an airbase where colossal U.S. transport aircraft landed, loaded with tanks and sophisticated weapons. El Arish is an Egyptian city [90 miles east of the Suez Canal in Sinai, it was captured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: In Search of Identity | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...very upset about the progress of soccer in the United States. The people in the pro circuit haven't shown enough interest in the American player," complained Shep Messing. That was six years ago, before the Bronx-born, Harvard-educated goalie became famous for eating glass, keeping a pet boa constrictor, posing nude for a Viva centerfold and playing on last year's championship New York Cosmos soccer team. Messing, 28, is no longer upset, having just signed a $100,000 per-year contract with the fledgling Oakland Stompers, making him the highest-paid American soccer player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 20, 1978 | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

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