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Junior Faculty at Harvard are in a precarious position at best. The basic tenet that "to receive a promotion from assistant to associate professor at Harvard one must be tenurable at any major university" creates a situation in which departments are often reluctant to let their own junior Faculty move one rung up the tenure ladder...
...probable outcome of the policy review is a reaffirmation of restraint, since the U.S. wants to avoid permanently alienating Banisadr and his allies. Part of the Administration's thinking is based on the firmly held tenet that it is vital to long-term U.S. interests that Iran not fall into the Soviet orbit. Many Iranian officials agree; Defense Minister Mustafa Ali Chamran said that in the event of a Soviet attack Iran would expect the U.S. to come to its aid. The leaders of the revolution in Tehran, moreover, now seem to be taking seriously the Soviet military presence...
Like his fellow Sikhs, Mahan Singh lives by three simple and rigorous principles. Following the tenet of Nam Japna, he rises at 3 a.m., takes a cold shower and chants the name of God. Living by Dharam di Kirat Karmi, he works hard, living a family-oriented life and striving to live honestly. And he shares his possessions with others and attempts to serve as a model for the community, under the principle of Vanke Chakna. He admits the tenets, especially the last two, are fairly open-ended, and says that many take advantage of their simplicity, affilitiating themselves with...
Victor Morrissey, 50, is in Britain to open a branch office. His wife is in a wheelchair in Scarsdale, N.Y. She lost both legs when, enraged and intoxicated after learning of her husband's philandering, she drove her car into a concrete abutment. The relentless tenet of The Bleeding Heart is that women always suffer and pay more than...
SALT II was in deep trouble because the hawks in the Senate and the Administration had refused to accept the basic tenet of the treaty--equality in nuclear arms and security--and instead insisted on the maintenance of U.S. superiority. They, once again, claimed a new "missile gap," forcing the President, even during the SALT ratification procedures, to agree to a substantial budgetary increase for new weapons and to commit the government to the production and deployment of the MX missile system. The really frightening thing about the new stage in the nuclear arms race, and it is just this...