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Holm, who held an assistant professorship here from 1960 to 1965, said he plans to continue both research and teaching in his new position. "I hope to uphold the tradition of excellence in the department," he added...
...fact, they ignore the poor, forgetting that the policies they advocate--the policies the government enacts--end up despoiling the underprivileged by increasing concentration of wealth, preventing full employment and decreasing social and economic mobility. The goals of corporate America, Harrington argues, undermine the American ideal they claim to uphold. Harrington understands that most Americans, even those hurt by corporate strategies (such as attacking inflation with high unemployment), subscribe to a national credo of individual opportunity and economic mobility. These national ideals can't be realized when all the opportunities belong to Exxon. Harrington's closely argued book debunks these...
...Memorial Drive, the Kennedy School of Government has become famous for wide-eyed enthusiasm and galloping growth. The arrival of an additional 240 students and 17 professors, giftwrapped as the City and Regional Planning (CRP) program and jettisoned by the overpopulated Graduate School of Design (GSD), will certainly uphold this tradition of expansion. In fact, the move may necessitate readjustments on such a grand scale that even the K-School's wizards of bureaucracy will have to scramble to keep...
George Sand never made it. Neither did Colette nor Madame de Staĕl. For ever since the elite 40-member Académie Française was established by Cardinal Richelieu in 1634 to uphold France's literary standards, it has barred its doors to women. But now the "Immortals" have voted to breach France's macho line by admitting Novelist Marguerite Yourcenar, 76, author of Hadrian's Memoirs and acclaimed translator of Henry James and Virginia Woolf. Though Yourcenar holds U.S. as well as French citizenships and has lived in Maine for 30 years, what...
...Alexander Leaf, Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard and originally a proponent of transplants at MGH, said yesterday he and most of the other surgeons uphold the board's decision. "Much more research on its therapeutic effectiveness and cost efficiency needs to be done," he added...