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Outspoken Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz has clashed publicly with Bok on numerous occasions, most recently last spring when he tried to persuade Bok to award an honorary degree in absentia to Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, an action which would have run counter to long-standing University policy that all its honorary degree recipients must attend Commencement exercises in Cambridge...
...BEGINNING of the film keeps feeding these false expectations. We witness a typical mad Monday at JFK: a kid nearly bleeds to death as he waits for the nurse, a school psychologist flips out, and most of the teachers are in absentia. Nolte, the model teacher, is too busy in bed to be in class, and a lingering topless view of his bedmate puts Teachers on its way to a well-deserved R rating...
...outspoken Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz has his way. Harvard will soon award honorary degrees in absentia to political prisoners and dissidents...
Dershowitz cited the example of the University of Pennsylvania, which broke with its longstanding tradition of not awarding honoraries in absentia to offer an award this year. to Sakharov, who is reportedly nearing death and may have already succumbed to the effects of a prolonged hunger strike...
...capital city of Yaounde. The suspected instigators: Muslim members of the palace guard loyal to former President Ahmadou Ahidjo, a northern Muslim whom President Paul Biya, a southern Christian, replaced in 1982. Ahidjo, who had led Cameroon for 22 years before going into exile in France, was convicted in absentia last year of plotting to overthrow Biya. Last week's rebellion was apparently sparked by Biya's efforts to replace Muslim officers with Christians loyal to him. Though no details were available, the government radio announced at week's end that the mutiny had failed...