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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...further annoyed by the author's persistent placement of quotation marks around the work "information," as if, despite the motto of his or her school, he or she has no concept of what the term means. The author has a right to his or her opinion; indeed, I am still forming mine. But Harvard employees are not worker drones in need of salvation, and we welcome the opportunity to investigate both sides of this complicated issue. Sharon E. Block Marketing Staff Assistant Harvard School of Public Health
These, however, are short-term problems. Condensing and improving school curricula would be a long-term solution to increasingly pressing social problems. Granted, any exercise in social engineering carries with it certain risks and costs. But the alternative solutions to today's teen problems, which emphasize the inculcation of morality and responsibility, rely on abstractions that are even less subject to human control and, in any case, do not deal directly with the issues at hand...
Finally, when it comes to minority (and especially Black) faculty, the entire American college and university community is in the grips of an intractable long-term supply problem. There just aren't enough bodies to go around. Black students perennially push to see more Black faculty, but almost none of them want to become Black faculty. And who can blame them, when the Sirens of Wall Street beckon so seductively...
...superpowers. Mitterrand calls for reimposing the so-called wealth tax on the unearned income of the rich, a measure repealed by the Chirac government after it assumed power in 1986. Chirac promises to continue selling off industries nationalized by Mitterrand in the early part of his seven-year term. While Mitterrand opposes such a move, even he no longer wants to pursue what he calls the "ballet" of renationalizing firms made private under Chirac...
...polls. But with the gap as narrow as the 4% shown in the Le Point poll, there may be time in the two weeks before the second round to mount a credible come-from-behind campaign. If not, Mitterrand will be the first French President to serve a second term since -- who else -- Charles de Gaulle...