Word: wagner
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...still has to be approved by the village Board of Trustees, but we're hoping to get it within a year," says George A. Wagner, deputy chief of Northfield Police, who has been in charge of computerizing the force. He cities the same reasons as Harvard officials for buying a computer: "We're currently using a computer in central Illinois for data analysis, and that takes months. We need our own machine for statistical data analysis...
...made a political decision not to include the word 'politics' in the charter for the chair," says Edward W. Wagner, Director of Harvard's Korea Institute, which he says does not benefit in any way from the gift. The chair has yet to be filled, but has supported several temporary appointments including the current junior faculty position of Karl Moscowitz. The endowment also currently funds three courses in Korean economics and history, Wagner says...
...Wagner calls this decision "wrong". He adds, "If you don't have anything to do with a regime like that, you throw away an opportunity to influence a situation." The Korea Institute, which Wagner heads, and other Harvard research centers have maintained open relations with Korea...
...academic ties to Korea are reinforced by Korea's financial contributions to several programs and institutes. Wagner says that there was a "small grant" to the Korea Institute made by the Korean Research Organization last fall to help publish an English lay journal of Korean studies. Other joint Harvard Korean projects include a ten volume analysis of the modernization of Korea, of which nine have been completed, written in a cooperative effort between the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) and the Korea Development Institute...
...very difficult to say that you're going to cut off all relations with any government that doesn't live up to your standards," says Wagner. "There is a general trend in the lessening of these standards I feel general optimism...