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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) grouped together this spring to form the May Fourth Foundation, which attempted to raise money to buy word processors and fax machines to send back to students in China. And students from the Boston area founded the China Information Center with the aim of gathering and spreading information about the prodemocracy movement...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Pushing for Change Across the Ocean | 7/14/1989 | See Source »

...offers to Faust and Gienapp were endorsed by the department and reviewed by ad-hoc committees of outside scholars this spring before going to Bok for final approval...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Bok Extends Tenure To Two Historians | 7/11/1989 | See Source »

Liem's appointment, which took effect July 1, makes him the only acting master of the 12 houses who is a member of a minority group. During the search for a new house master this spring, minority students were vocal in their support of Liem...

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: New Dunster Masters Chosen | 7/11/1989 | See Source »

...daughter of two Soviet mathematicians, Tsarkova, 19, is currently a student at Latvia State University. She said she decided to apply to Harvard on the advice of Rinella, who travelled to the Soviet Union on a Harvard-sponsored trip last spring...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Soviet Woman to Enroll As Junior at Harvard | 7/11/1989 | See Source »

Under normal circumstances, investigators might have stopped there and at least re-examined Bracy's confession. When they did so later, they discovered that Bracy was wrong about how some alarms worked. In the spring of 1987, however, investigators were convinced that Bracy's confession was authentic. They saw the Moscow case much the way a detective might see a locked-room mystery in which the only occupant of a sealed chamber has been murdered. "We assumed it had happened," recalls one leader of the embassy investigation. "So there must have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moscow Bug Hunt | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

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