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SHREWD filmmakers might figure that Winter 1987, the season of Reagan-Contra-Iran scandals a-go-go, would be a propitious time to release movies about government hypocrisy and national security cover-ups. That would explain the American debut of Defense of the Realm, an otherwise forgettable 1985 British thriller that happens to be about an hypocritical government engaged in a national security cover...
...council being a potentially influential Political body, as well as over the relationship of council chairman to the members. The so-called "Political" faction called for more aggressive council support of issues, such as divestment. But the "apolitical" side felt that these issues fell outside the council's realm of influence...
...body Harvard is reduced to its secondary roles as a research institution, a library and an investment firm. The University offers teaching and education not as a consumer commodity but as its own primary focus. Yet those who pay to be taught and educated accept their relegation to the realm of passive recipient. The theories also obscure what has become a central tenet at most educational institutions: the experience of living and functioning in a university environment equals or surpasses the classroom in educational importance. Many students are and the rest should be directly concerned with the University's major...
...long as the institution occupies an intangible realm removed from those who constitute it, ideas wil tend to take on a life apart from those who create them. Professors communicate to one another through books. Bok communicates with the community through long, logical and legal treatises devoid of personal content. Faculty meetings allow little opportunity for open debate. Instead, projects are advanced behind the scenes, opposition quelled quietly. Change is measured in generations rather than months. Because initiatives rarely involve the input of the community, new projects must proceed ever so slowly to avoid the embarrassment of discontent or failure...
...those who work for him, Adnan Khashoggi is not a constellation but the very center of a mysterious and splendiferous universe. His is a dazzling and ostentatious realm of luxury beyond the dreams of Croesus, a shadowy sphere of deals, arms brokering and billion-dollar investments. But with Khashoggi's well-publicized role as the middleman in America's arms-for-hostages deals with Iran, light has been cast on the sometimes shaky financial state of his private and public dealings. Like the arms sales to Iran, several of his recent investments have been ill-conceived, botched deals...