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...expected development, [Bernard Bailyn], all-being guru of time, space and [History], is absent from this volume. But history meisters can take heart. His course, Historical Studies A-25, "The Peopling of America," which mysteriously disappeared last year, will return to Cambridge next year...
...reception last winter in Washington honored 40 high-ranking presidential appointees with the Harvard connection. Among them: Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and five Cabinet members. Absent from the party were Chief Justice Nominee William Rehnquist (M.A., '50) and three of the Supreme Court's Associate Justices, all veterans of the Harvard Law School, where Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Felix Frankfurter learned their torts, and where a pragmatic innovation called the case-study system changed legal education in America. Says Alumnus Richard Darman, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury: "I cannot imagine the influence has ever been higher than...
...excised from this bland account. Historians generally tend to focus on the significance of periods of upheaval, but these essays emphasize the placid progress of an educational institution with a shifting population of faceless students and teachers. Student riots are glossed over or ignored. Wartime turbulence is omitted. Conspicuously absent is any mention of the most recent Harvard crisis of student demonstrations in the '60's. Clearly, such a short book cannot include every significant event in the University's past, but the lack of any disscussion of turmoil leaves this account of Harvard's history improbably dull and rosy...
...avenue presenting the fewest technical barriers for the campaign would be an awkward "national surrogate" strategy involving a stand-in who would go on the stump, presumably pressing palms and kissing babies for Iacocca. There is no direct precedent for a substitute enunciating the views of a silent and absent candidate. Such a campaign would draw close FEC scrutiny if it attempted to get federal financing...
...only ring up prices but also tell a central computer how many items per minute the clerk is handling, as well as other information. Even in factories where employees operate complex electronic machine tools rather than keyboards, computers can monitor the equipment and alert management about slow or absent workers...