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...served for three years as a member of the Faculty Council, when the future of Expos was a central issue; I run Harvard's equivalent to a school of journalism, the Nieman Fellowships. So my interest in the topic of teaching, particularly the teaching of writing, is neither recent nor casual...
CRIMSON SPLASHES: Coach Joe Bernal's troops traveling to the shores of Lake Erie will be Harvard's strongest NCAA contingent in recent years. Barring a rash of illness or injury, their chances of improving upon last season's 15th place finish are bright...
There has been a great deal of controversy in Nicaragua in recent months over whether Washington's mediation efforts led by Ambassador William Bowdler, one-time ambassador to South Africa and former Chief of Intelligence and Research at the State Department, have been in good faith. America's long history of pro-Somoza interventions and aid has led the larger part of the opposition to conclude that the U.S. should not be trusted this time, either. Fearing the Americans seek an equally conservative but less controversial successor for General Somoza--"Somozaism without Somoza"--many opposition splinter groups have recently left...
...frontier has changed, the nations on both sides have changed, and the convulsions seem to be accelerating. Carter's recent statements declining the role of world policeman have signaled almost everybody, intentionally or not, that as nations jostle for advantage, the U.S. plans to be just another member of the club...
...propaganda apparatus has been working overtime to indict the Chinese. Peking's rulers have been accused of everything from planning germ warfare to running the world narcotics trade to assassinating President Kennedy. The polemical tone carries over from the popular press into the theoretical world of scholarship. One recent monograph printed by the Institute of the Far East of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (there is a similar institute devoted to American studies) is called Destinies of Culture in the People's Republic of China. It makes the charge that Peking views the arts as "an ideological tool...