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When a corporation sends one of its top executives to the 13-week program, it continues to pay his salary--as well as the $19,500 AMP bill. Though Kirsten Professor of Human Relations Lorsch acknowledges that the fee is steep for three months' room, board and tuition, he says it is comparable with similar executive programs offered by other universities. "One way to think of the fee is as a donation...
...site is breathtaking: 24 prime acres atop a steep ridge in California's Santa Monica Mountains. To the west there is a sweeping view of the Pacific Ocean; to the east, the skyline of downtown Los Angeles. Says Architecture Critic Reyner Banham of the site: "Not since the Roman emperors built their summer villas on the isle of Capri has there been an opportunity like this...
...steep climb up three floors to the bare office of newly arrived Professor of Philosophy Thomas N. Scanlon, a climb perhaps symbolic of the distance many philosophers feet from the mundanities of the "real world...
...treated to free food, such as shrimp salad lunches and drinks by the GOP, while they could buy a plate of rice and beans at Tent City. The Republicans provided free phones, typewriters, tv's and work areas, while there was a bank of pay phones atop a steep hill at Tent City...
Each night convoys of anywhere from 600 to 1,500 men begin the long march westward. They load down their mules and camels with mortars, heavy machine guns and mines, then scramble along steep, rocky trails through an eerily deserted landscape. Stealing past a government fort and fields still littered with bomb fragments and mines, ignoring the distant thunder of MiGs and flares on the horizon, they cross the highlands along the border and descend toward battle...