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...representatives are Shannah B. Braxton'88, former BSA president; Raul Perez '90, asteering committee member of Raza, the Hispanicstudents' group; Mary Moreland '88, formerpresident of American Indians at Harvard (AIH);Michelle D. Mirchandani '91, a representative ofan Asian minority group, and Laurence Schreiber'87-'88, who is a member of Harvard-RadcliffeHillel...
...signals a major transformation in America's global economic role. For nearly four decades following World War II, the U.S. did the buying, savoring its role as the globe's foremost exporter of capital. U.S. investment power was so great that in 1968 French Economics Journalist Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber predicted that American multinational companies like IBM and ITT threatened to turn Western Europe into an economic province. Concern about foreign cash flowing into the U.S. arose briefly in the 1970s, when a weak U.S. dollar and the emerging clout of OPEC prompted fear of an Arab buying spree...
...range of picture takers, from bird watchers to parents who do not want to miss Junior's first step as they try to focus the camera. Whatever the attraction, many dealers have had to struggle to meet the demand. "We can't keep enough Maxxums in stock," says Michael Schreiber, a salesman for Bel Air Camera in Los Angeles...
With no bitterness but some regret, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 61, the former magazine editor (L'Express), author (The American Challenge) and his country's leading technophile, stepped down last week as president of the Paris-based World Center for Computer Science and Human Resources. He resigned to protest his government's decision to use French computers rather than the Apple Macintosh in its ambitious computer-literacy program. Under the plan, which Servan-Schreiber devised in 1984, France will place computer-learning centers in 36,500 cities, towns, villages and hamlets. Yielding to pressure from France's computer industry...
...Servan-Schreiber argues that the French models selected for the program (a network of inexpensive machines, such as a Thomson, hooked up to larger computers like the Bull Micral) are not Macintosh's equal. Said he: "I personally believe that the best machine is the Macintosh. I am not against French industry. It is just a choice of technology...