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Whatever the differences in the Soviet and Chinese approaches to reform, both Moscow and Beijing are determined to pin a Marxist label on their economic experiments. Lenin's decision to revive the private sector during the New Economic Policy of the 1920s figures prominently in the new Soviet economics. Beijing ideologists invoke the theory that China is at a "primary level of socialism" to keep Marxist dogma intact. True reform is meant to provide more bread and steel for the masses, not merely bird whistles...
...modern America is that most professors teach most of the time, and large proportions of them teach all the time, but teaching is not the activity most rewarded by the academic profession nor most valued by the system at large," the report states. "Trustees and administrators in one sector after another praise teaching and reward research...
...four incumbents running for re-election, two are CCA members and two are independents, so the voting on Tuesday could determine which sector gains control of the board...
Harvard too can learn from this venture. The Peace Corps is not the only organization that needs volunteers, and students in Harvard's other schools are interested in public service. The Kennedy School and the Law School already have instituted loan forgiveness programs for graduates who enter the public sector, but more can be done. The University should work to create other programs which give academic credit for volunteer work, in this country and abroad. Such programs well complement President Bok's periodic calls for students to enter public service...
Tierney said the CCC supports the linkage proposal because it will make the private sector share some of the costs for their own staff, and it will be an invaluable help in alleviating the problem for all employees...