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...matter what her concern about Radcliffe, its future is no longer within Arthurs' official purview. As part of the Harvard administration, she will now focus her efforts on improving advising and counseling of undergraduates and related student services. It hasn't been too difficult a transition to make, Arthurs says. "I see my new job, in one dimension, as an extension of what I've already been doing--working to improve the quality of undergraduate education." Because she'll encounter many of the same people in the course of her official duties, her working life, she says, "won't change...
Secret Files. Despite sharp criticism from the committee, Colby insisted that the CIA had every right to keep files on members of Congress if they became involved in a matter of foreign intelligence that was within the agency's purview. Said he: "If a Congressman appeared abroad and made contact with some agency we were appropriately watching, then we would put that in our files...
What did Giancana get for his investment? In October 1960, the CIA did him a favor that was beyond the purview of the agency. Giancana was fuming because his girl friend, Singer Phyllis McGuire, was interested in Comedian Dan Rowan. The CIA arranged for burglars to break into Rowan's hotel room in Las Vegas and search for evidence that might cool the romance...
...such direct conclusion was explicitly drawn, of course, by the six professional sound, recording, and electronics experts who had exhaustively examined a presidential tape recording containing a mysterious 18-minute deletion of a Watergate conversation between Nixon and his intimate aide, H.R. Haldeman. It would have exceeded both their purview and their competence. But in reporting to Federal Judge John J. Sirica that the conversation had been erased by pushing buttons on a tape recorder at least five?and probably nine ?times, they had found, in effect, that this destruction of evidence necessarily had to be deliberate. Until someone...
...August 1, she expected the admissions office to occupy a small part of her time. Six weeks later, she has found that all three offices to be equally demanding. In fact, she has begun to feel that admissions is a touchstone for dealing with all the questions in her purview...