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...issue was also starting to weigh heavily on Volcker, who felt the waiting had gone on too long. Early last week he went so far as to request a private meeting with Reagan. In a session just after a White House show by Entertainer Mary, Martin, Volcker told the President that he wanted to stay on and that uncertainty about the top job at the Fed was becoming unhealthy for financial markets. The next day, in part because of rumors that Volcker was on his way out, investors drove the Dow Jones industrial average down 19 points. The following...
...limited to the Nazis and their collaborators. We who knew of the horror and did not stop it are also guilty. Reports of the death camps were smuggled to Allied authorities with the urgent appeal that the rail lines to the camps and the gas chambers be bombed. This request was denied because, it was said, these were not military targets. A Holocaust memorial in Washington is not only appropriate but morally mandatory...
Others are called on to provide curricular advice, instead of closing existing programs, such as the plans which a group of HIID faculty are drawing up at the request of the Aga Khan for his proposed Third World university. The length of the training programs also varies--from the two year business management programs the B-School set up in Barcelona, Spain, Nicaragua, and Iran, to two-week long curriculum consultations and seminars such as the one Klitgaard and his colleagues presented to a Mexican university of public administration...
Shanta Devarajan, assistant professor of Public Policy at the K-School, and a native of Sri Lanka, reports that only last week he received a request for help from a university from his home country which is interested in developing a program in business management...
...Walesa the possibility of an early announcement. "He told us it would help the chances of his coming over if we released the news early." So in the first week of April. Harvard's news office issued a press release about Walesa's acceptance--"largely to accommodate his request," Aloian says...