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Mason followers are given more leeway. Although they must take half of their eight courses at the school or in a pre-chosen "home" department, the remaining four chosen are left open to electives. As program direction Nancy Pyle explains, "All of these people have already had experience and are pretty good at what they do. As it is, a whole year away from their careers is a long time; we must have a totally flexible program...
...almost all of those affiliated with the school speak of the symbolic significance of a Harvard diploma. "Third World governments have an enormous respect for Harvard," Pyle says. "Just the name alone gives great prestige to an alum...
...coordination with the Kennedy School of Government. HIID sponsors the Mason fellows, program that brings about two dozen mid-career public servants from the Third World to Harvard for a year of study. Fellows often go on to important responsibilities as a result of their stint at Harvard. Nancy Pyle, director of the program says. To illustrate this, Pyle tells of a major trade agreement recently concluded between Malaysia and Indonesia: the two signers were Mason fellows...
...growing. The lazy summer inevitability that has always been one of baseball's charms (the continuum of it, the meticulous formality of its records, the lovely mythic accessibility of the sport's past to its present) now grew disheveled. Local TV stations ran ancient episodes of Gomer Pyle instead of ball games. Somewhere in a high-rise Manhattan hotel, Mammon and the Grinch negotiated free-agent compensation, the main issue in the major league players' strike-the old push-and-shove of player freedom vs. owner control. But the noises coming through the door sounded rather slow...
Perhaps Perkins' most radical departure from past practice at HIID. however, is his advocacy of women's studies. This winter, he helped Nancy Pyle. HIID's assistant director of student programs, to obtain a Ford Foundation grant to recruit women for the K-School. And he is now working with a joint Harvard-MIT study group on women in development which he calls the "first small step" towards a full-scale women's research and teaching program...