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...Foreign Assistance, through which some 80% of the committee's legislation flowed. He has combined two other subcommittees. The result is to give more power to the full committee and, he assumes, himself. Just as significantly, he has cut back the committee's unimpressive 72-member staff to a leaner but more professional...
Congratulations to the Master and Staff of Kirkland House for being the first to usher in a new mockery of scholarship. Kirkland House has pointed us in the right direction before its penchant for debauchery and food-fights (where else is the ethos of Animal House cultivated and glorified?), but never before has it voiced so clear a call for a return to the Cave. By offering academic credit for a course on the logic of a particular football strategy, taught by no less a scholar than the venerable Harvard quarterback himself, the House has announced to us that...
Hartley and his staff drafted the 1979-80 budget early this month and then proposed a tuition increase to the school's board of trustees. Students received a letter last week announcing the increase...
...illusory. In Isfahan and other Iranian cities, Khomeini supporters occupied municipal offices. Bazargan, however, made no move to seize any ministries in Tehran-not that there was much to seize. The majority of government employees had declared their rejection of Bakhtiar's regime, and even some staff members in his own office went on strike...
...stability. Since the country was carved out of British India as a Muslim "land of the pure" 32 years ago, Pakistan has had three constitutions and suffered through three military coups, plus repeated doses of martial law. In July 1977 General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, the army Chief of Staff, seized power after aggrieved mullahs and members of the middle class took to the streets to protest Bhutto's political corruption. Zia has moved cautiously to cleanse politics and restructure the nation's criminal and financial codes along Islamic lines...