Word: settings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There's always a friction" between faculty, Huchra said, deriving from the perceived "second-class" citizenship of the Smithsonian staff. Other tensions appear when the center attempts to set long-range goals. Professor of Astronomy Margaret J. Geller says that Harvard has been "dragging its feet" on a proposed $20 million telescope to be built in the Southern Hemisphere. The University apparently prefers to rely for now on the Smithsonian facilities...
...provide an important opportunity for the community to gain a public voice. Any individual, organization or corporation can choose to purchase space in this newspaper to express an opinion. Barring libelous or inciteful material, we should print it. Censorship of news would not be tolerated. Censorship of ads would set just as dangerous a precedent...
Like all members of the media, we already set limits on advertising, and in the past, we have, in fact, chosen not to run advertisements because we found them offensive to women and because they represented a contribution to a social discourse from which we could not, in all good conscience, accept money...
...last year's Boston champion and the first African to win the race, placed fourth with a time of 2:12:41, followed by John Campbell, 40, of New Zealand, in 2:14:19. Campbell's time smashed the Boston course record in the Masters division (2:17:53), set last year by Ryszard Marczak of Poland...
Walsh said that he came up with the idea of asking Harvard for a loan at a recent League of Cities and Towns meeting, where he heard of a similar arrangement that had been set up between Northwestern University and Evanston, Illinois. He said that he did not think that there was any precedent for Harvard loaning money to Cambridge...