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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many administrators and faculty say they are uncertain whether lifting the mandatory retirement age will bring the policy of lifetime tenure without review into question. But most say they doubt Harvard will change its policy, citing fears about the University's commitment to academic freedom...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Too Many or Too Few Professors in the '90s? | 2/23/1989 | See Source »

Baker said Kohl told him "in no uncertain terms" he plans through further negotiations to work out the Bonn government's differences with Washington over what is referred to as modernization of aging, U.S.-built Lance missiles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baker Competes With Gorbachev Popularity | 2/14/1989 | See Source »

...retrospective -- his first in New York since the more premature effort that went on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1971. Whether MOMA wanted to get the crowds before a rival museum did, or simply to get the job over and out of the way, is uncertain: probably both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Best And Worst Of Warhol | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

With Cambridge's at-large proportional representation system, the only sure things seem to be that another outspoken liberal will replace Sullivan and that an East Cambridge native--of uncertain political orientation--will replace Vellucci...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: A Watershed Year in Cambridge Politics | 1/27/1989 | See Source »

...against the temptation to dismiss such an incident as an aberration resulting from an extreme person, a rare happening, or the work of a lunatic. The fact is that this incident is not different from countless others being reported in colleges throughout the nation. This incident signals in no uncertain terms the reality of racism which permates society today. It is a painful, shameful and destructive reality from which the Harvard community is not protected. It is a reality which we can change only if we acknowledge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racism | 1/25/1989 | See Source »

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