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...Going to the Kennedy School wasn't what I had in mind." said Kelman yesterday. "I just wanted to be a regular political scientist...
...data used to create the image had arrived in California by an unusual route. Looking for ways to view Halley's comet at perihelion, Ames scientists had hit upon the idea of using the Pioneer 12 spacecraft, which has been orbiting Venus since December 1978, surveying the planet with an array of instruments. Around the time of Halley's perihelion, they realized, Venus--and thus Pioneer--would be in position to have a direct view of the comet. Late in December the scientists ordered the spacecraft to pivot 90 degrees and point its ultraviolet scanner at the comet...
First, the department recommended that Columbia Professor Alfred Stepan be appointed to the Gutman chair in Latin American Studies, but members say Bok overturned the decision because Stepan was more of a political scientist than a sociologist...
...former article, Koch relies on the hackneyed deterrence argument--the unproven assertion that unwavering and well-publicized punishment for homicide will reduce its incidence. Though Koch's standpoint is that of the politician cum social scientist, he fails to refer to any studies to prove his most fundamental point--perhaps underscoring the ambiguous nature of such data...
...Western Europe. It has long been Moscow's design to split the NATO alliance by persuading European voters that the Soviet Union is essentially reasonable. But other Kremlinologists take a more sanguine view of the Shcharansky swap. "It alerts us that Gorbachev means business," says Princeton University Political Scientist Stephen Cohen. "He wants to remove certain roadblocks to U.S.-Soviet relations." Whatever the Soviets' real agenda, the announced swap will at least free Shcharansky from the horrors of the gulag. In the cold world of superpower diplomacy, that is no small achievement...