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...overseas "rescue missions" to help re order the finances of Villa I Tatti. Harvard's Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence Italy Like Harvard Magazine, Villa I Tatti had fallen into fiscal disarray with a series of large deficits, and the Corporation had brought in new management to revamp the operation...

Author: By David L. Yermack, | Title: A Gifted Troubleshooter | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...though, would be to render existing concentrations more flexible. Departments have all the advantages of staff and resources. Perhaps they might add to these the advantage of being truly sensitive to legitimate academic pursuits beyond those which they themselves have established. The English Department has lately taken steps to revamp its requirements to better reflect concentrators needs: the more departments follow their lead, the better...

Author: By Jenny Springer, | Title: The Beaten Track | 3/2/1983 | See Source »

These regulations constitute only a small part of a massive bill designed to revamp the nation's immigration policy But Parker I. Coddington, director of governmental relation for the University, said yesterday that the bill would force Harvard to after significantly its policy about hinng faculty. "We're anxious to hire the best person available in the world." Coddington said. Under the new legislation. "If there was one qualified American, we would not be able so hire today's parallel to Einstein," he added...

Author: By Cindy A. Berman, | Title: Alien Students, Faculty May Face Restrictions | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

...originality that will run a thematic risk-"take left turns," as McCormick says-without becoming reckless. "He had an unfailing instinct for what would resonate, of what would work for him," says Brickman, who recalls with admiration how Carson withstood one writer who tried to get him to revamp the traditional Washington's Birthday skit by impersonating a cherry tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Magician of 3,328 Midnights | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

...years since the friendly motelkeeper played by Anthony Perkins, 50, was led away to a California mental institution after his classic bathroom murder of Janet Leigh, 55, in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Middle-aged and pronounced cured, Norman has returned to town and wants to revamp his sagging hostelry. Directed by Richard Franklin, 34, who worked with Hitchcock as a student, Psycho II picks up the few surviving characters from the master's original. Vera Miles, 51, returns as Leigh's sister, "and Mom is definitely six feet under - in the beginning," says Perkins, ominously adhering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 16, 1982 | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

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