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Harvard today confronts challenges from within and without that threaten to subvert that mission. The gravest threats are cloaked in good intentions...
...consider sanctions against South Africa. But the Sunday Times's story went further. It charged that "the Queen considers the Prime Minister's approach often to be uncaring, confrontational and socially divisive." Specifically, the report continued, the monarch feels that the Thatcher government "lacks compassion" and that its policies threaten to "undermine the consensus in British politics that has served the country well" since World...
...Bard offer has been taken up by 65 students since the program was < launched in January. It is one of a growing number of innovative financial plans aimed at bringing families relief from the daunting college costs of today, not to mention the average annual increases of 7% that threaten to put a tag of $100,000 or more on a turn-of-the-century education. One such measure has passed the Michigan house of representatives and is pending before the state senate. If the bill passes, as expected, it would enable Michigan parents with newborn babies to invest roughly...
...that the kind of pornography that flourishes in most cities is also distasteful and to be discouraged. Now even if this were all true -- and a majority of Americans think it is -- does it mean that the forces of law and government should proclaim such sexual activities illegal and threaten all offenders with prison terms? More generally, does it mean that the permissiveness of the past 20 years has finally gone too far, particularly in its blatant public displays, and that the government has a moral duty to call a halt? That certainly seems to be the implication...
...autologous donation when President Reagan mentioned it during a recent interview, the panel did not look kindly on its use by people who simply wish to stockpile their blood for a rainy day. The practice, which is made available by a host of new commercial blood banks, might threaten the supply of blood available to the general public. This concerns the American Red Cross. "The present system provides the opportunity for individuals who are healthy to provide blood for individuals who are sick," says Red Cross Vice President Gerald Sandler. If too many people reserve blood for their...