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...Office of the General Counsel takes seriously any complaint by any student or any other member of the community about the conduct of Harvard University police. In this case, as in any case in which police conduct is questioned, we undertook a thorough inquiry and a full disclosure of the facts as we found them. Allan A. Ryan, Jr. University Attorney
Rudy calls the changeover to computer design the "most rewarding" episode of his long tenure. "Plus I had access to the best illustrators, fine artists and photographers in the world." To make even better use of these resources, Rudy led a team that two years ago undertook another thorough redesign of the magazine, the results of which have been evident in every issue since April 20, 1992. He was aided in this enterprise by design director Arthur Hochstein, who now assumes Rudy's position...
...immigrants from the beginning, the U.S. has welcomed most newcomers, grateful for any new pairs of hands to tame its vast interior or help stoke its huge industrial engine. For more than a century, most of the new arrivals were from Europe. But in the 1960s the U.S. undertook a basic shift in national policy, from one stacked in favor of European immigrants toward one that favored the rest of the world, particularly Third World nations. The full effects of that policy have exploded only in recent years. The past decade has seen the greatest rise in immigration since...
...directly ordered his followers to blow up any targets. It may be enough to show, as the indictment charges, that he "provided instruction regarding whether particular acts of terrorism were permissible or forbidden ((under Islamic law, presumably)), served as a mediator of disputes among members of the organization, and undertook to protect the organization from infiltration by law-enforcement authorities...
Indeed, the institutions created by Bok and his deans--the Harvard Foundation for Race Relations and the Office of Race Relations--were designed to provide the capacity for intervention in the college environment to achieve Bok's goals, and the deans soon undertook concrete action to accomplish the task. Faculty, administrators and students soon saw those efforts as fundamental to a well-functioning academic community...