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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, the "hiring away" method is insufficient because it does not make a contribution to the nationwide dearth of women and minority academics. This is not to suggest that Harvard can be faulted for going after the finest available scholars. Academic excellence, after all, is this institution's modus vivendi...

Author: By Steven J.S. Glick, | Title: The Home-Grown Solution | 10/14/1989 | See Source »

...official modus vivendi Bustamente talks about is a reminder that this is a unique border between the first and the third worlds. Perhaps the closest ^ comparison is the frontier between Western and Eastern Europe. Yet whereas the East Europeans are preoccupied with keeping their own people in, U.S. efforts on this frontier revolve around keeping foreigners out. Only the bureaucratic language and style are similar. WARNING reads a sign in English and Spanish in the U.S. pedestrian immigration hall at San Ysidro. YOUR ACTIONS AND CONVERSATIONS ARE BEING RECORDED BY VIDEO CAMERA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Journey Along the U.S.-Mexico Border | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

Weiner and Tokuno two years ago founded Musicus Modus Vivendi (MMV), an ensemble of Harvard musicians dedicated to performing European music from the often-ignored period of the 14th through 17th centuries...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Renaissance Resonance | 11/13/1987 | See Source »

Like Collegium Musicum, the Latin name Musicus Modus Vivendi implies tradition. It means "music as a way of life." The name can be seen as a musical pun on the word "mode," which refers to the type of musical scales early composers used...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Renaissance Resonance | 11/13/1987 | See Source »

Attracted to Harvard's reliance on a variation of the tutorial system she had enjoyed as a child, an insistence on academics overpowered extracurricular impulses. Her activities in Amnesty, as publicity manager of the Dunster House Film Society, and as a cellist in Musica Modus Vivendi have been minimal in order to accommodate the five- to six-course load she has maintained since freshman year. Leisure time is spent reading novels, her favorites being those of the Bronte sisters and Charles Dickens, playing the piano, and occasionally attending Japanese Cultural Society events...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: For She's a Jolly Good Fellow | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

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