Word: safran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faculty colleagues elected him, Safran would have sat on the council during its upcoming discussions of rules pertaining to national intelligence agency sponsorship, a review prompted by the professor's own use of CIA funds...
...Safran, who holds a Government Department chair, competed against the three other tenured social scientists in a race which guaranteed representation to the humanities, natural sciences and social scientists. Roderick MacFarquhar of the Government Department, and Brendan A. Maher of the Psychology Department won the positions set aside for tenured social scientists. The vote tabulation was not revealed...
Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence's investigation of the CIA links, completed last December, probed Safran's acceptence of CIA funds for both a Harvard-sponsored conference and independent research for a recently published book on Saudi Arabia. The report found Safran had violated Harvard rules in failing to disclose CIA funding for an October conference on Islamic fundamentalism at the Faculty Club...
...announcement of Safran's defeat comes amid speculation that he may be contemplating departing Harvard. According to a source close to the professor, Safran has abandoned an attempt to win a temporary appointment at a University in France and is currently negotiating with the University of California at San Diego to teach there next year...
...contrast to the behind-the-scenes campaigning practiced by other council aspirants, Safran is reported to have run the most aggressive campaign in memory, sending correspondence to a large number of faculty members...