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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Cook says that fundraising will be one of his priorities, he emphasizes that he he has no immediate plans to initiate a fund drive. The arboretum currently has an annual operating budget of $2.8 million--70 percent of which comes from its endowment--and depends for the remainder upon both public and private grants, income from education programs, membership fees and donations and revenues from the arboretum shop...
...although President Derek C. Bok has never unleashed riot police upon students, Harvard's administration remains aloof and unresponsive to student and faculty initiatives...
...Upon returning to Moscow in 1944 after a seven-year absence, the American diplomat George Kennan was struck by the enigma of an empire both yearning for its rightful place in the modern world and clinging to the enfeebling insularity of its past. "The Anglo-Saxon instinct is to attempt to smooth away contradictions," he wrote. "The Russian tends to deal only in extremes, and he is not particularly concerned to reconcile them. To him, contradiction is a familiar thing. It is the essence of Russia...
...schools, is beginning to yield to free debate. Like America's system of local school boards, councils made up of trade-union and party members, parents and students have been created to give people more control over their children's classrooms. Boring textbooks that only timidly touched upon the terrors of Stalin have been withdrawn. Until new textbooks become available, articles from newspapers, enlivened by the candor of glasnost, serve as the main basis for history lessons. Once banned 20th century classics, such as Andrei Platonov's Juvenile Sea, have found their way into classrooms...
...print run is clearly not enough to satisfy demand, but official promises to allow us a larger circulation have so far not been realized. There is a very special feeling about being part of a process that is of your own making, rather than one that is imposed upon...