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Indeed, it is the process by which those students became Harvard students that both makes clear the institutional safeguards that Harvard has rightly declared are inviolate and offers the only way that Harvard can recommit itself to Gina Grant...

Author: By Lee A. Daniels, | Title: Harvard is Right About Grant | 4/11/1995 | See Source »

...America. Many saw the unleashing of a dark, latent psychosis in the national character, a stain that had its start with the first settlement of a hostile continent. For the young people, in particular, who had been persuaded by the new politics of Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy to recommit themselves to the American electoral system, the assassination seemed to confirm all their lingering suspicions that society could not be reformed by democratic means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION 1968: Assassinations: An Hour of Need Martin Luther King | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

Whether intentionally or not, Burford is not doing her job, controlling and cleaning up pollution. If she will not follow the Congressional mandate which created the EPA she should resign, leaving her agency free to clean itself up and recommit itself to making America safe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cleanup Time | 3/2/1983 | See Source »

...bullish on stocks. For the near-term, however, which Cabot describes as the next 12 to 18 months, the bond market looks attractive because as Reagan's policies are implemented, interest rates should come down, increasing the value of bonds. As a result, HMC's current strategy is to recommit itself to the bond market and reduce exposure in common stocks. This strategy represents a substantial change from recent year, during which the proportion of Harvard's portfolio invested in stocks reach a high of 75 per cent from a norm during the '70s of about 60 per cent. "What...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: A Prudent Investor | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

Still, the U.S. should recommit itself to foreign assistance on a realistic basis so that aid will 1) regain the political support it needs in the U.S., and 2) be effective overseas. In the 1950s and '60s, U.S. aid was largely a matter of bilateral, oneway gifts. Such assistance has too often proved harmful to the LDCs: it discourages economic innovation and national self-esteem while feeding corruption and resentment on the part of the recipient. Some outright government-to-government grant assistance will still be necessary. The real emphasis, however, should now be on private-sector investment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Rebuild the Image | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

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