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...started studying Sanskrit only during her doctoral studies at Harvard in Comparative Religion, "It's vital to opening up a culture and especially crucial for reading texts, "she says...
April 15--Admission results are in, with some surprising contrasts to previous trends. We've really got the diversity problem whipped this time." exults Director of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons '67, pointing to a Class of '88 which includes 900 students with red hair, 200 who are fluent in Sanskrit, and 150 who hail from the same small town in northern Nevada. Minority statistics continue to rise, though observers predict more problems than usual in persuading all those who accepted to come to Harvard...
...Francisco, which has 289 AIDS victims, a group surpassed only by New York City's 988, is trying to ease the dilemma by helping finance two home-care plans: a visiting-nurse program and Shanti ("inner peace" in Sanskrit), a volunteer organization that provides peer counseling for the terminally ill and their families and runs two residences for AIDS patients. San Francisco is also planning to open a special, long-term treatment center...
...MARKET for Harvard Ph.D. s in Sanskrit Studies or History of Art has never been particularly strong, but thing seem to be getting worse than ever for academics hoping to junk the scholarly life. For four years, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) had run an unusual six-week intensive introduction to the basics of business for some 150 GSAS students and alumni; the program, offering instruction in such topics as finance, marketing, and production, propelled a good number into high-flying jobs with Sony, Citibank, Mobil, Wang, and the like. Last week, however, GSAS officials, citing financial...
...Margad means road or path in Sanskrit," explains Andrew S. Gilmour '83, one of the magazine's founders. "We thought it was a broad term for the comparative study of religion, allowing for different paths of salvation," he adds...