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With the recent raising of the Campaign's sights, there's going to be a lot of hullabaloo around here, as development officers try to preserve momentum from the first part of the fundrive and refocus it into the new push. There'll be palm-greasing, backslapping, nostalgia, and simple exhortations to key alums to the fact that the final goal is no longer near, but two years and $135 million away...
...debate within Israel over Reagan's proposals. Begin easily won approval from the Knesset for his stinging rejection of the plan, and aides made no secret of the fact that his strategy would be to kill it by silence. U.S. officials saw little they could do to refocus attention within Israel on the plan. Grumbled a senior White House adviser: "A cynical person might think that the Israelis went into West Beirut to provoke us into some land of sanction and thus to discredit our peace plan inside Israel. But of course we don't believe that...
...Gerald M. McCue, had come to accept enthusiastically the President's proposition. Philosophically, all participants in the operation now agree that the activities of CRP had grown to resemble those of the K-School more than those of the GSD. Moreover, the move will allow McCue to refocus his programs on more traditional physical planning and will give the neophyte architects in Gund Hall more badly needed studio space...
Coll throws his words and convictions at Harvard students in an attempt to refocus their energy and eliminate the more immediate problems of poverty and racism in Harvard's backyard. He stands in House dining halls, beneath gaudy chandeliers, surrounded by the gazes of past House masters, and tries to describe the Fidelis Way housing project where his revitalization corps is concentrating its efforts. "It's a goddam pit," he says with typical directness, "and it needs your help...
...advised the Radcliffe students attending the RUS dinner to refocus the context in which one responds to this pernicious comment. I believe that women have and continue to face discrimination in this country. If young women entering the professions are being taken seriously, they do so as a consequence of the affirmative actions by women who put themselves on the line demanding equal opportunity and the end to sex discrimination. Without these continued efforts to combat nonconscious forms of institutional sexism, many qualified women would not hold their present positions. Political actions by both men and women are encouraging professional...