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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...School encourages students to seek a broad liberal arts education, said David Smith, vice-dean of the Harvard Law School, who recommended that future lawyers should watch "Hill Street Blues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Alums Most Qualified | 2/12/1987 | See Source »

...several political observers interviewed this weekend say the prospects for a fifth CCA victory are doubtful. All nine incumbents, including the five "independents," plan to seek re-election and do so with few significant weaknesses, politicians point...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: November Looms for Council Candidates | 2/10/1987 | See Source »

...from a series of political setbacks. The shooting of 18 demonstrators on January 22 by security forces drew extreme criticism from the left; five days later right-wing elements of the armed forces staged an abortive coup. Then, on January 30, rebel negotiators announced that they would no longer seek an extension of the two month cease-fire between Communist and government troops...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Philippines | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...their good intentions, aid donors often find themselves at odds with the very people they seek to help. One common complaint is that some relief workers live in a style that contrasts vividly -- and insultingly -- with the poverty around them. In Mozambique, where about 40 Western agencies have offices, high-ranking aid workers can rent colonial villas staffed by servants and still save large chunks of salaries that may exceed $80,000 a year. That is a sum past reckoning in a country in which the average annual income is about $300. Such imported luxuries as Cuban cigars, French perfumes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Third World Hard Times for Foreign Aid | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...Faculty Council in the next few weeks will seek input from students in the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) and from faculty members before sending the plan to a vote of the full faculty, said Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57. But Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence said that if the Faculty votes down the proposed plan, he will likely forego future efforts to change...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Faculty Releases Plan To Dissolve CRR | 2/7/1987 | See Source »

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