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When Michael S. Dukakis left his post as a lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government faculty to become governor of Massachusetts, he announced that his term would be "a test of what I have learned and what we try to teach at the Kennedy School." But it seems the governor didn't want to take the test by himself...
...best way to avoid nuclear war in the long term is to spend all of our efforts, time and ability to try and work out a Strategic Defense Initiative," Weinberger said...
Georges, the suspected leader of a group called the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions, is serving a four-year prison term for possession of arms and false papers. He also is charged with complicity in the murders of an American and an Israeli diplomat in Paris...
...action down at City Hall last spring, a first-term city councillor offered a series of scandalous proposals which would weaken, if not destroy, rent control and Cambridge's method of providing low-cost housing to its neediest citizens. Throughout the whole legislative debate, however, Harvard's large legislative lobbying staff was conspicuously quiet on the matter--and no wonder, given the University's poor track record on rent control...
...Tribe '62, Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law, opposed Fried's view, arguing that the Ninth Amendment provides for rights the Constitution does not specify, thereby allowing for a more general interpretation of the nation's highest law. Using this argument, Tribe attacked the Supreme Court for its ruling last term upholding a Georgia anti-sodomy law in Bowers vs. Hardwick...