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...revelation in 1985 of Safran's use of CIA funds as well as a similar case the next year, sparked a reevaluation of the ethical aspects of academic scholarship. The crux of the reevaluation was not the questionable nature of the sponsor for this research--America's chief covert bureau--but the agency's requirements that manuscripts must pass a prepublication review and that the source of the funding not be made public...
Unlike the old director, Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Nadav Safran--who earned headlines for accepting, without publicly disclosing, money from the CIA to sponsor a conference on modern diplomatic affairs--the center's new administrator, Professor of Islamic History Roy P. Mottahedeh '60, has little scholarly interest or experience with current events...
Safran drew official University criticism for failing to notify Harvard officials about receiving funding from the CIA to sponsor a conference on the Middle East. The scholar of Egypt failed to notify the participants in the conference about the CIA funding...
...from * superconducting materials. In Washington, the Department of Energy has decided to double this year's research support for superconductors to $40 million; it is also compiling a computerized database that will enable American scientists to keep up to date on fast-breaking superconductor research results, and will co-sponsor a White House conference on superconductivity this summer. "It's a monumental subject," says Energy Secretary John Herrington. "It ranks up there with the laser." In the Senate, Minnesota Republican David Durenberger has co-sponsored a bill calling on the President to form a national commission to coordinate superconductivity research...
Soros is as inventive at spending money as he is at making it. A large part of the more than $500 million Soros has earned from Quantum is given to three foundations that sponsor greater openness in his native Hungary and other Communist societies. Dozens of Hungarian writers and scientists, actors and artists, who lack government endorsement and support for their activities, live on Soros Foundation grants. In addition, Soros is now bankrolling a dozen Hungarian high school graduates each year to study at Oxford. Earlier this month Soros flew to Moscow to see whether a "Glasnost" foundation could...