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Shortly thereafter the Corporation, at the urging of Citibank, attempted to alter their policy to permit such loans. Rebuffed by the ACSR in 1981, they tried again in 1982. Their proposal stated that "Harvard will encourage all banks with which it does business to make humanitarian loans...Harvard will encourage foreign banks which have supplied the bulk of South Africa's credit needs in recent years to make humanitarian loans...the contemplated change offers greater hope of spurring expenditures that benefit non-white South Africans than does the current policy." (Harvard Gazette...
While the mention of the sport "polo" may connote English country houses, aristocratic pleasantries and Ralph Lauren, a group of diehard polo enthusiasts is seeking to alter that image at Harvard...
...editor stressed last week that his changes at U.S. News will be "evolutionary," thus echoing Zuckerman's pledge not to alter the magazine precipitately and risk alienating longtime readers. With a circulation of 2 million, U.S. News runs a distant third behind TIME (U.S. circ. 4.4 million) and Newsweek (2.8 million). Ad pages dipped slightly last year, but revenues rose 8%, to $101 million. One sure change will be the magazine's look: Zuckerman has hired Designer Walter Bernard, who worked with Coffey on new graphics for the Post last fall, to restyle U.S. News...
Father James Parker, one of the traditionalist converts, administers the ; program for ex-Episcopalians under the supervision of Boston Archbishop Bernard Law. Parker explains that the new Mass does not significantly alter the Prayer Book: "The changes are minor and few and have been done to reflect current Catholic liturgical scholarship." Among them: the addition of prayers for the Pope and to the Virgin Mary. Perhaps the most important alteration is the omission of the Prayer Book's proclamation of collective absolution of sins. Rome insists that confession be made individually, and a few strategic word changes make it clear...
Though there is no shortage of unresolved business from prior attempts at arms control, the Geneva negotiations seem certain to be dominated by a major new issue, one that could profoundly alter the nature of the arms race. That issue is Star Wars, Ronald Reagan's cherished plan to render offensive nuclear missiles "impotent and obsolete" by constructing a defensive shield based in outer space. Officially termed the Strategic Defense Initiative, Star Wars would employ a variety of still emerging technologies, including laser beams and high-energy particles, to shoot down attacking warheads before they reach their targets...