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...shame that a more constructive type of guidance also seems to have disappeared town this campus-if it ever was here. While academic and personal counseling-and "Radcliffe," for the matter-are ostensibly available, the guidance mechanism, and its propagators seem deeply out of touch with the community they purport to serve. Consequently, many undergraduates make mistakes early on as a result of not knowing how to make Harvard work, how to get this big institution to provide you with the education and lifestyle that you are paying for. Poor advising does not teach anyone a lesson. It imparts...
...months before the embassy takeover, the documents indicate, U.S. officials in Tehran made a good-faith effort to mend relations. Yet there were attempts at old-fashioned spying. The papers purport to show that the CIA attempted to recruit Abolhassan Banisadr, then an adviser to Khomeini and later President of Iran, to be an informer in the summer of 1979. A CIA agent posing as an American businessman approached Banisadr in Tehran and offered to hire him as a business consultant for $5,000 a month, but the attempt failed...
Stephen Jay Gould, professor of Geology, was a chief witness at the trial. His testimony in U.S. District Court in Little Rock tried to show how fossil records disproved a sudden recent appearance of life, as Fundamentalist groups purport...
...even broader impact. Many liberal Bible scholars treat Abraham not as a historical figure but as a sort of Semitic King Arthur. Their view is that the stories about Abraham and the other Patriarchs must have been written down more than 1,000 years later than the events they purport to describe. Now, in the area of the world that produced the Bible, Ebla has established that sophisticated and extensive written culture existed well before Moses and even Abraham, as early as the middle of the 3rd millennium B.C. According to the ebullient Dahood, "After Ebla...
...White House would like to believe him. Said Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese III at a conference of mostly conservative blacks organized by Sowell last December: "Some of the people who purport to represent the black community are talking about the ideas of the last ten years. You are talking about the ideas of the next ten years...