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...replaced in 1980, but Reagan Administration officials complain that they inherited a network that had poor contacts with the leftist guerrillas. Nonetheless, a senior CIA official insists: "We are building up our assets and, while not the best, our resources are pretty good now." Members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence agree that, as one puts it, "We've had to play catch-up." The quality of information has greatly improved over the past few months. Yet even when the information is gilt-edged, Washington is not always eager to listen if the details do not mesh with...
...high school students stick with college entrance courses. Says one: "When you go into a technical course, it's very bad. Everyone knows you couldn't make it." Notes Shogo Ichikawa of the National Institute for Educational Research: "We keep long-term relationships, so we must select group members very carefully. The Japanese industrial and occupational structure requires the Japanese education and selection systems...
...activities during the war. The American Society of Zoologists' annual meeting in December 1980 was dedicated to Williams and several hundred papers were presented in his honor. Howard A. Schneiderman, a former student of Williams, said in a speech "Carroll's greatest gift is knowing how to select a problem for attack so that exciting results flow from every experiment...His discoveries have played a major role in the modern sciences of developmental biology, biochemistry, and physiology" Schneiderman attended the conference along with hundreds of scientists, most of whom were veterans of the labs or admirers from the scientific community...
...RESIGNATION last month of 28-year member Francis H. Burr '35 provides an excellent opportunity for the Corporation to become more representative and responsive. The Corporation is slated to select a replacement this spring; it should do everything possible to select a qualified--and independent--minority or woman to fill the vacancy...
...TOUGHEST PART of fashioning affirmative action programs is balancing the ideal of selection without discrimination with the need to allow historically underprivileged minorities to catch up to more advantaged groups. At the Law School, the Harvard Law Review recently struck this delicate balance so it could select more minority students for the staff...