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...Harvard, "probably less than a third" of work-study students work in off-campus jobs, according to Martha K. Baldwin, the off-campus work-study coordinator. Those that do work off-campus tend to work in hospitals and laboratories doing research rather than in agencies that directly aid the community, says Baldwin...
Kissinger Associates' selected clientele of international conglomerates and financial institutions is as top secret as the papers Kissinger once dealt with, but like all such secrets the names tend to leak: Volvo, Fiat, Atlantic Richfield, Fluor Corp., H.J. Heinz Co., S.G. Warburg investment bank in Britain. Foreign governments, however, need not apply. "We are not lobbyists," Kissinger says sternly. "We do not deal with the U.S. Government on behalf of any client...
Like the old-time revivalists to whom they are the natural successors --George Whitefield, Charles Finney, Dwight L. Moody, Billy Sunday--today's televangelists tend to be mavericks, outside of denominational control and resourceful about using entertainment and new technology to find their audiences. When radio was born, the early networks wanted no part of troublesome evangelists. They encouraged stations to donate time for network shows produced in cooperation with the liberal Federal (later National) Council of Churches, as well as Catholic and Jewish agencies. In early TV, too, the networks continued to give traditional denominations free time, in effect...
Music lovers tend to take their taste in the classics for granted. But it is worthwhile to have the mind invigorated by listening to old works in a fresh way. Some recent releases that issue a challenge...
...they do not forgive the slightest sign of nervousness), or to know that the lecture is regarded more as an audition than as a learning experience. A point Professor Bell did not raise but which should be mentioned is that in large classes, the manners established during "shopping week" tend to last all term. Last fall, I gave a Core course with an enrollment of 155 in which people walked in every day 10 or 15 minutes early, disrupting the lecture in the process. These same people would then sometimes complain to me that they had missed important announcements about...