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When the biggest and baddest at the Kennedy School of Government lumber into a seminar room to work over a major political problem, you expect some noise--if not national media chatter or awed applause from Washington, then at least the venerable murmurs of academe. If the heavyweights square off against an issue as imposing as the transition of presidents, you might even look for Howard Cosell at ringside, narrating the blow by blow. But the presidential transition is just the problem that Institute of Politics (IOP) director Jonathan Moore, K-School professor Ernest R. May and several of their...
Most of the researchers have had extensive experience in national government under more than one administration. May describes his own political career as ranging from Pentagon work under Truman and Eisenhower to being "one in the hundreds" who wrote speeches for John F. Kennedy. "We don't have a problem drawing the line" between scholarly advice and political advocacy," May adds. While other Harvard faculty members have declared support for a specific camp, the transition team strives for "an objective approach to what is good governance," Moore says...
Time may not be a problem, but money is another story. Although Leahy says precise estimates have not been determined, he adds that "we could over the next two years spend $2 million." That figure excludes expenditures for fume-hood renovations in the labs or possible House renovations. To finance the project, the Faculty--which has built a $785,000 deficit into its 1980-81 budget--would have to use reserve funds associated with particular buildings and float a loan from the Corporation...
...woman needing a gynecologist enters Cambridge Hospital. She does not speak English, and no interpreters are available. The hospital has to ask her young child to explain the medical problem to his mother...
...THERE LIES her weakness. While she speaks of stirring memories of, for example, a grand entrace hall or a cramped tenement staircase--her work seems instead rather devoid of content. The problem may be one of materials. The staircase of the Fogg piece suggests ancient Aztec monuments; it might be more powerful if constructed of weathered stone rather than lumberyard wood. Miss, like many intellectually oriented artists during the sixties, gives priority to idea over aesthetic. In failing to point up the qualities of her sculpture, Miss deprives her pieces of visual and emotional richness...