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Blackbourn, who comes to Harvard from theBritish university system, says that findingprofessors to teach surveys is rarely a problemthere because faculty are given little choice inthe matter...

Author: By Bryan D. Garsten, | Title: Surveys: A Dying Breed? | 3/11/1994 | See Source »

...hours aday, telling you what to think." At this veryinstant the couple are engulfed by a crowd ofstereotyped Japanese tourists, chattering andsnapping away furiously at Marx's statue withtheir telephoto lenses. The sequence provides acommentary on the futility of protest in a worldof mass production and mass-communication. TheBritish don't like change, but somehow we willeventually be dragged kicking and screaming intothe modern world...

Author: By Tilly Franklin, | Title: Class Wars | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

Earlier yesterday the heir apparent to theBritish throne visited a market mill in Lowell,Wang Laboratories, and the Harvard-affiliatedDana-Farber Cancer Institute where he met withchildren being treated at the center...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Prince Charles Arrives for Festivities, To Address 18,000 Today in the Yard | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

...Cyprus took a new turn last weekwhen a grimy little two-stack transport flying the French tricolor putinto Limassol harbor. Moody Cypriots stared with astonishment as 1,400 blue-bereted paratroopers and 1,300 airmen moved without armed protection towards the tent city hastily built for them by theBritish near World War II Tymbou air base. If that did not give a clue to what was happening, the dispatch of another ship did. It was a 3,226-ton tanker named Bacchus, and it gurgled toward Cyprus with a full cargo of wine. The French had arrived in force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Buildup | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...eight he turned out a 31 -page history of the Boer War roundly criticizing theBritish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL AFFAIRS,INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN,SQUALLS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN,OBIT,OTHER EVENTS,SJPEli it OUf: (THIS TEST COVERS THE PERIOD FROM LATE JUNE THROUGH MID-OCTOBER 1953) | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

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