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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Even matters like tuition are pretty cut and dried when they come before the Corporation," notes former ex officio member George Putnam...

Author: By Mark M. Colodny, | Title: An Evolving Partnership | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

Contributors: Colin Boyle, Jessica Dorman, Adam Epstein, Jennifer Frey, Joe Kaufman, Lori Lakin, Casey Lartigue, Michael Lartigue, Al Mattei, Jon Putnam, Julio Varela...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREDITS | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

...downtown hotel under the cover identity of "Gulf Coast Tours." At 3:12 the next afternoon, minutes after the end of the banking day, they started streaming into the classy marble headquarters and three downtown branches. After assembling the headquarters employees in a basement lobby, Liquidation Specialist Timothy Putnam told them, "As of now, you're on the payroll of the FDIC. You'll get overtime tonight. Balance your windows. Finish your processing. Dinner is coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobody Thought It Would Be Us | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

Insiders like Putnam have been able to see that report. The availability of the work should be automatic, no questions asked. When a scientist reports on an experiment, or empirical conclusions, or a proof of a theorem, it is a standard of science that one is entitled to have the data on which the conclusions have been based, and a complete version of the paper. I wrote to the chairman of Class V to ask if he, or Class V, condones the failure to provide me with the material I requested from Huntington about his State Department Report...

Author: By Serge Lang, | Title: On a Recent Non-Election to the NAS | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

...Class V," on thegrounds "that he has neither the knowledge nor theinterest necessary to conduct [scientificresearch]," that he has an "ideological outlooksufficiently parochial to question hisidentification with the world-wide scientificcommunity," and that Huntington lacks competencein "matters epistemological." As Singer suggests,one can leave aside the claim made by Putnam inhis PS article, that Huntington is"avowedly patriotic." The quality of scientificdoings does not depend on their being "patriotic" buton the factual documentation and accuracy.Huntington gives evidence that he confuses thetwo. For instance, when writing about TheSoldier and the State (one of the books uponwhich his reputation as a political...

Author: By Serge Lang, | Title: On a Recent Non-Election to the NAS | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

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