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...week by Egyptian officials be cause he also wants to overthrow such conservative Arab leaders as President Sadat's friend and ally, Saudi Arabian King Faisal. Arafat could easily win a vote on the mini-Palestine issue. Meet ings droned on, however, as he sought to shape a consensus without losing dis senters. "Wishes are one thing," Egyptian Editor Salah Gawdah observed last week, "but what is feasible is another...
Doko employs a management style that is characterized by self-spun homilies. Sample: "Act instead of thinking it over. Only action produces ideas." Doko's actions are expected to be in tune with the consensus of Keidanren's hierarchy. The federation's first resolution under his leadership called for a lifting of the selective price freeze that the government imposed during the energy crisis...
Rosovsky said he no longer sees a consensus among educators and students regarding the goals of undergraduate education. Liberal education has lost much of its meaning at Harvard, Rosovsky says, as General Education courses often merge with departmental offerings. Rosovsky is fond of asking audiences, "Should tap-dancing be given credit?" and answering that "we have lost the capacity to answer such questions because we have no criteria to do so." Within two years the new Redbook committee, he says, should try to reach a new consensus about what undergraduate education should be. Like its predecessor, the new committee...
...cheaper) programs elsewhere, Dean Rosovsky has underscored Harvard's role as an "elite private university" in the business of educating undergraduates. With this end in view Rosovsky has announced plans to form another Redbook-style committee to investigate new guidelines for undergraduate education which, hopefully, will "re-establish a consensus that would last another twenty years...
...second "Redbook committee." Without student efforts even these piecemeal advances might have faltered. But next year's student body must begin to explore the general values and principles which underlie their specific complaints. Failing this they will have little clout in hammering out the next 20 years' educational consensus...