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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carlos moved cautiously by approaching the moderates of Spain. He slowly replaced Franco's highest appointees with what he called "the civilized right." He invited leaders of the outlawed Communist and Socialist parties to dinner. Assistant Professor of Government Terry Karl, a specialist in that process, says. "It's rare to find a figure that commands that kind of respect who will throw his weight behind the democratic transition...
...Defense Department-sponsored research makes up less than 25 percent of Harvard's (including the Medical School) $106 million total budget from externally funded research grants and contracts. The majority comes from NIH ($67 million) and NSF ($14 million) awards. Even in the rare case of a loss of all Department of Defense monies, Harvard research funding as a whole would not decrease significantly...
Martin Peretz, lecturer in Social Studies and editor of the New Republic, echos that sentiment "What's most interesting about Sandel is that he brings the philosophic consequences of public controversies into sharp focus. In our time it is rather more rare than it used...
...With rare exceptions, there was also no hope for discussion with the Harvard Faculty. Most of those who taught at Harvard had other cares, were engaged in the treaty business of college academics. Having been called to Harvard in an earlier age, by quick circumstance, after a decade or more of painstaking specialization, they were even less prepared for the challenge of the time than were we. They were not ignorant professors, but they were unable to demonstrate how a life might be dedicated both to books and action, learning and justice. The nation's best scholars seemed to have...
Dunster House resident Alice Y. Kiang '86 died after a long illness. An Applied Math concentrator who played piano in the Harvard Ensemble Society. Kiang suffered from a rare blood disease that attacked her immune system...