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Renowned sociologist David Reisman '31 says he, for one, was ready. But others, including former Watergate special prosecutor and Loeb University Professor Archibald Cox '34, would have liked to stay on longer...
Recently President Stephen Trachtenberg of George Washington University and Harvard's Ford Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus David Reisman '31 expressed their uneasiness with these new obligations, telling The Boston Globe that "People go to enormous lengths to avoid the tag `racist.'" This is, of course, part of the NAS backer's talk about "politically correct" ideology...
...houses made tutorials a presence," Reisman says. "But he [Conant] wanted faculty to get on with scholarly work. He was not there to create gentlemen who were good at conversation...
...seemed by many--because of his theoretical evaluations--to be very aloof and intramural to the academy, but he wasn't," Reisman said...
While both sides agreed on the goal of free trade, working out the details proved to be maddeningly complex. Just three weeks ago, Simon Reisman, Canada's chief negotiator, stormed out of the talks in Washington and flew home. The major sticking point was agreement on a mechanism to resolve trade conflicts. At Mulroney's insistence, the Canadians returned to the bargaining table, but the wrangling continued until the deadline day. Finally Mulroney's chief of staff, Derek Burney, asked U.S. Treasury Secretary James Baker when would be a good time for the Prime Minister to call the White House...