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...Does the specter of the Unabomber taint the image of fair Harvard...
...Reeve went to Washington to lobby directly for research funds. He met with President Clinton and secured his promise to add $10 million to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) research money; Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter of the Senate subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services offered to add $40 million more. Soon after, as the new a.p.a. chairman, he flew to Puerto Rico and helped raise $600,000 at a benefit. Last week he was host of the Paralympics in Atlanta. Next week he addresses the Democratic National Convention with a nonpartisan appeal for research support...
...Interfax news service, assured Russians that the government would deliver eventually. "A lot of economists and analysts are saying the only way Yeltsin's going to make good on his promises is to print more money," says TIME's Andrew Keith. That would cover the debt, but reintroduce the specter of inflation. Higher inflation would further jeopardize payments from the International Monetary Fund, which is already holding the latest installment of a $10 billion loan. That money is in limbo to spur Russia to improve its terrible tax-collection system, which has only recovered 63 percent of projected taxes this...
Lurking behind all these groups, say U.S. investigators, may be the shadowy specter of foreign governments. Iran, known to sponsor a variety of radical Islamic groups, is viewed as the country most determined to oppose the U.S. presence in the Middle East...
Meanwhile, the people at The Crimson and its readers should be on guard about the unthinkable, the specter of an intolerant fascism at Harvard. --Kaveh L. Afrasiabi Former post-doctoral fellow