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...idea for a massive capital campaign for the College may have even proceeded October. In a letter dated Feb. 4, 1957 to William Bentinck-Smith ’37, Pusey’s assistant, Lamont even remarked that “It could be said that the groundwork for the Program was laid in the spring of 1953 when the Corporation brought the name of Nathan M. Pusey to the Overseers as the 24th President of Harvard College.” A MULTIFACETED CAMPAIGN...
...Iraq to work out their differences and time for the American public to see progress in Iraq before it decides whether the war is unwinnable. That time is already running out. In Washington, Bush Administration officials are preparing for a two-track strategy later this summer, quietly laying the groundwork for extending the surge--and crafting a new plan in case an extension cannot be sustained politically...
...Iran disinvestment campaign is being marshaled by, among other groups, the conservative American Enterprise Institute, an influential Washington think tank whose experts laid much of the ideological groundwork for the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The AEI has identified dozens of energy companies active in Iran's oil and gas fields and has also pointed a finger at such engineering, transportation and communications giants such as Siemens, Daimler-Chrysler and Volkswagen of Germany, Renault and Peugeot Citroen of France, and Ericsson and Volvo of Sweden...
...discrimination. Eight months later, the inquiry concluded that Harvard had not violated federal regulations.By then, the College had already set up the Committee to Address Sexual Assault at Harvard in an effort to ease student concerns about the new policy. The committee’s final report set the groundwork for the establishment and funding of OSAPR, and since 2003 the office has been up and running. “Harvard students are really fortunate to have the services that they have,” said Sarah Rankin, director of OSAPR. “The funding, support, and the dialogue...
...magazine. This number, though seemingly small, is in fact rather impressive. At its peak, the print run of The Partisan Review only reached around 15,000. Nonetheless, the editors recognize the need for reassessment. “In the first of our issues, we sort of laid the groundwork,” adds Chad D. Harbach ’97, who recently became a full-time editor of the magazine. “We did a lot of criticizing and, as magazines often do, when they start, looking around and observing the culture and leveling a critique and establishing...