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Harvard's present system of awarding Ph.D.s makes it increasingly difficult for the University to attract top-notch doctoral candidates. Once, Harvard's mere name was good enough to ensure the best pool of doctoral candidates. But today, the rampant proliferation of highly specialized programs found at other universities offering integral Ph.D. programs in professional disciplines presents students with well-tailored options suiting their very specific academic and professional interests. Harvard's roundabout way of offering Ph.D.s, by contrast, is seen as less attractive and less cohesive...
...debate, then, centers chiefly around when this control should stop. The National Rifle Association and the NSSF say it should stop now, or even that we have too much control and that regulation should be loosened. The Oklahoma City bombing, along with the rampant gun violence in our cities, provides a striking testimony to the contrary...
Messrs. Rockefeller and Bush should be charged with aggravated first-degree homicide (lying in wait), and with war crimes and crimes against humanity, and if found guilty, executed, as were the other fascist criminals at Nuremberg. For 50 years, we have been forced to live in 'Rockefeller Fascism," with rampant CIA killings here at home and abroad, stolen elections, etc., and with unnecessary wars that have killed millions of human beings...
Faculty, staff and administrators at the Harvard Business School are busy writing letters to and meeting with President Neil L. Rudenstine during the search for a successor to outgoing Dean John H. McArthur. Ideas about the qualities for the new dean are abundant, rampant--and above all, as assorted and extravagant as the cremes in a box of Godiva...
...reality is that corporations and rampant consumerism are the driving forces behind the resurgence of Latino culture and the Spanish language. Modern marketing has become increasingly interested in targeting specific audiences, and one easy way to divide the general audience is by language. Ad campaigns on L.A.'s Spanish-language TV stations now seem better-made than those on their English-language counterparts...