Word: stanford
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...shadow of Stanford's business school looming large over Harvard's prestige may also have motivated Bok's report. MBA magazine has granted Stanford a higher academic rating than Harvard in its last two polls on business school quality. Although such polls always raise doubts, some of Bok's suggestions for the B-School--especially his eagerness for the school to do more research--hint that Bok may want Harvard to move a few degrees away from its management-training emphasis toward Stanford's academic research approach. Although Stanford's reputation for academic excellence has improved in recent years, Harvard...
Says Dr. Noel Thompson of Stanford University and the Palo Alto Medical Clinic in California: "The doctor who does something to the patient?sticks something down his throat or up the other end of his anatomy, cuts him open or takes his picture?receives a much larger amount of money." A fierce dispute rages over how much unnecessary surgery is performed on Americans each year. Though the precise figure is impossible to pin down, no one doubts that at least some doctors will operate on patients who could get by without surgery simply because the Government or a private insurer...
Sidney Hook Hoover Institution Stanford, Calif...
Shils' remarks may be, as Government spokesmen charge, both intemperate and premature. But "Caesar's" reach is an object of concern throughout academia. "Governmental intrusion is a considerable and growing problem," says Stanford President Richard Lyman, 55, adding, "but curriculum and academic quality have not been seriously threatened." Affirmative Action Critic Nathan Glazer, a sociologist at Harvard, says a real danger to academic freedom is that faculty members "don't want to go to all the trouble" of proving they have been unable to find qualified blacks or women, so they tolerate inferior appointments...
...about the activities of Synanon, the controversial drug-rehabilitation group with headquarters six miles away. Out-of-town journalists quickly descended on the paper's storefront office in Point Reyes Station (pop. 420) to interview the Light's owners, Cathy, 34, and David Mitchell, 35. Armed with Stanford journalism degrees and experience on small papers elsewhere, the Mitchells bought the Light four years ago for "under $50,000." Ironically, their Pulitzer-the gold medal for public service-is given only to newspapers and not to individuals, and so does not carry a $1,000 award. Their paper could...