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...more recent action down at City Hall this spring, a first-term city councilor has offered a series of scandalous proposals which would weaken, if not destroy, rent control and Cambridge's method of providing low-cost housing to its neediest citizens. Throughout the whole legislative debate, however, Harvard's large legislative lobbying staff was conspicuously quiet on the matter--and no wonder, given the University's poor track record on rent control...
...contrast to Luns, who echoed Reagan's violently anti-Soviet rhetoric, Carrington has expressed "polite disagreement" with such a method. Nevertheless, he has toned down his own disapproval of the U.S. since his ascension to the leadership of the military resource-pooling of "15 sovereign nations, one of which is much more sovereign than the others," as Hoffman says. He adds that today's speech will be "one of the first times since he took the job that he'll have a chance to speak openly about Reagan's ideas...
Some graduate schools used a different, more formal method of decision. Since the Corporation decided the celebration would be a University-wide affair, the graduate schools were given free rein to select their alloted representatives on whatever criteria they deemed fit, Koivumaki says...
...order to "respect the privacy wishes" of the representatives, the specially created 350th office has no plans to publish a list of those singled out to serve as alumni representatives. But without knowing the identity of all the representatives, many have still criticized the method used by the various alumni organizations to select delegates...
While students complained earlier this year about the random, almost haphazard, manner in which tickets were assigned to freshmen, some critics have charged that the selection method for the 350th places too much emphasis on wealthy alumni and their links to the Harvard College Fund, the University's main fundraising organ. Stephenson, the man who is in charge of planning the whole 350th celebration, also served as one of the College Fund's top rainmakers before taking over his current post...