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Instead of condemnation, the University should be commended for being bold enough to reject knee-jerk sentiment and come to terms with the CIA. Two years ago, it was revealed that in exchange for research funds. Harvard professors Nadav Safran and Samuel P. Huntington had allowed the CIA to review their work before publication. The new K-School contract represents an amazing evolution from the secrecy and deception surrounding those incidents...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Secrecy and Freedom | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...maintain some missiles in Europe for a limited period. In its place was the zero option, which would meet the long-standing Soviet objective of keeping all American missiles off the Continent. As before, having originally proposed the zero option, the Administration felt it could not reject it at Reykjavik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road to Zero | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...this is a G&S show, Bunthorne is not the only one suffering from love unrequited. Patience laments her lost childhood sweetheart, irresistibly beautiful rival poet, Archibald the All-Right (Douglas Freeman), who just happens to cruise onstage. Although Archibald loves her fiercely, Patience must reject him because she believes love must be entirely unselfish. For their part, the soldiers lust after all the ladies, who have abandoned the boastful Bunthorne to pine away over consummately cool Archibald. Poor Bunthorne's one remaining admirer is the one woman he can't stand--the plain Lady Jane, brilliantly portrayed...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Ginsberg and Sullivan | 12/11/1987 | See Source »

While Chinese psychologists, sociologists and child counselors are quick to concede the shortcomings of single children, they emphatically reject the claims in the press that the little tyrants pose an alarming problem. They are certainly not cause for having more children, a development that China can do without, despite the surplus of parental love. According to Mao Yuyan, a psychology professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, if parents want the atmosphere of a large family, they can organize their neighborhoods into quasi-clans. Children can also be trained in the collective spirit in nurseries and kindergartens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Bringing Up Baby, One by One | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...Gerry Studds (D-Ma.), who wrote the settlement legislation, has urged the subcommittee to reject the request, contending it would jeopardize the agreement scheduled to take effect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Congress May Delay Payment to Indians | 12/1/1987 | See Source »

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