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Government Professor A. Lawrence Lowell, who took over in 1909, was a patrician, a conservative and a consolidator. He modified Eliot's total freedom of choice and insisted that each student must choose a field of concentration. "Every educated man should know a little of everything and something well," he...
Rapidly rising medical costs will prompt health care providers and consumers to become more cost conscious, which will cause major changes in the provision of health care in the 1990s, a group of Harvard experts predicted yesterday at a symposium entitled "Health Care: Opportunities and Burdens for the '90s."
The proposal, if passed, would prohibit smoking in all public places except for restaurants and certain other areas and would ban smoking in any workplace unless the employer and employees specifically agreed otherwise. Even such agreements would be governed by restrictions preventing favoritism toward smokers, such as a provision requiring...
Still, tensions persist. The bitterest quarrel concerns the human tide of refugees that washes through the two Berlins. Drawn by advertisements for East Germany's Interflug airline and the Soviet Union's Aeroflot, the impoverished and the war weary from Africa and the Middle East have arrived in East Berlin...
Under a fallback provision in the law, written in anticipation of a negative Supreme Court ruling, the Office of Management and Budget and the Congressional Budget Office will still make the initial calculations of how much federal spending must be reduced to meet the deficit reduction targets. But then, instead...