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...with History of Photography or Italian Renaissance Painting. "Trust no one, they add, and cut as many corners as possible before Commencement Day. At no time is unnecessary contact with teacher advisable: "They do not count as people; they are part of THEM." Advisers would never really help you select courses, "never, ever, ever." And if you insist on going to lecture and are bespectacled, you're in business: "People who wear glasses have a definite advantage because they can tilt their heads and let the light flash off the glasses. No one can see that their eyes are closed...
...that figure is $80,000, up from $70,000 in 1981-82 and $60,000 in 1980-81, Faculty financial officers say. The only Faculty members who will draw that top rate are the University Professors, a select group of scholars granted the honorary distinction of not being confined to a single department. There will be six next year: historian Bernard Bailyn, literature scholar Walter Jackson Bate. Nobel-winning physicist Nicolaas Bloembergen, economist John Dunlop, historian and Harvard Librarian Oscar Handlin, and philosopher John Rawls...
...research fellows end up in Washington, some on congressional staffs, others in executive branches such as the Department of Defense. The center's associates director, Michael Nacht, points to the example of Steven Flanigan, a former research associate, who left the CSIA to join the staff of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee. That panel debated in 1979 whether the SALT II nuclear arms reduction treaty with the Soviets was sufficiently verifiable, concluding that it was not. The Senate never formally acted on the treaty after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and tensions between Moscow and Washington increased sharply...
...task that occupies most of Bok's time is reviewing faculty and other appointments. While many other universities allow their faculties to select professors administration approval here is anything but a rubber stamp. There is Bok explains "certainly nothing more important than choosing key people--deans and faculty." As a result, he often laboriously reviews the work of adhoc appointment committees--composed of professors administrators and outside experts--and not infrequently vetoes a department's nomination. Just three months ago for example Bok rejected the Sociology Department's recommendation of tenure for Alfred Stepan a Yale University specialist in Latin...
Florida Democrat Claude Pepper, 81, who heads the House Select Committee on Aging, wondered if television cameras would be required to leave the meeting after ten minutes. "Absolutely not," said Economist Alan Greenspan, the commission's chairman. The TV crews could stay as long as they liked. Meanwhile, Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York was incensed about the entire proceedings. Heinz's proposal was fine for the future, he said, but "we are facing a crisis of the present." Since the Senate Budget Committee "ordered this commission to cut $40 billion," Moynihan complained...