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...board of directors of the Harvard Management Company, the University’s endowment management arm. Berman joins several other Harvard professors and administrators who serve on corporate boards. Lawrence University Professor Michael E. Porter, for example, holds numerous corporate board positions, such as Parametric Technology Corporation, Thermo Electron Corporation, and Inforte Corporation. Berman is scheduled to depart from her post in April after over a decade of service for the University in order to pursue an interest in foreign languages in Italy. She will then return to Cambridge in an as-of-yet unspecified advisory role for the University...
...hold until they can see what sort of political and business climate emerges from the present turmoil. The wait may be a long one, and even when it ends, Western involvement will depend on whether the eventual winners are receptive to foreign influence or are isolationist hard-liners. Thermo Electron, a Waltham, Mass., company, is negotiating to build in China a $110 million co-generation plant that would turn out electric power and ferrosilicon metal by reusing the same fuel (coal). But, says chief executive George Hatsopoulos, "if the situation reverted to anything like the ((1960s)) Cultural Revolution, we wouldn...
Reagan's remark at the National Prayer Breakfast in which he speculated on the power of prayer in terms of "megatonnage" betrays just how casually he views the use of thermo-nuclear weapons. Not long ago that casual view was exemplified by administration talk of "nuclear warfighting capability", "nuclear warning shots", "survivability", and "twenty million acceptable deaths". Pressure from public opinion in an election year has cosmeticized Reagan's verbage on the issue. But his actions are plain enough...
...small select club of moneymen, the eventual winner will be the entire U.S. economy. The innovative companies that venture capitalists find and then foster will manufacture new products, provide jobs and increase productivity in the industries of the 21st century. Today's startups, which have names like Hybritech, Thermo Electron and Collasen, may some day join Eastern Air Lines, McDonnell Douglas and Apple Computer as the success stories of venture capital. -ByAlexander L. Taylor...
...right wing evangelicals we ask the question which was often put 60 years ago: What would Jesus do? Support a new round in the thermo-nuclear race to Armageddon; favor capital punishment for the poor which excludes presidents who are Vietnam war criminals; self-righteously oppose abortaion and open the door to a flood of the unwanted to fill prisons and welfare folls; legally and otherwise harass homosexuals and lesbians who really are harming no one? What would Jesus do? His enemies said he was a wine-bibber, glutton, a friend to prostitutes and tax collectors! Henry Ratliff