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...just as Air France can feel confident knowing its people are fighting the competition rather than the company. AIR FRANCE--KLM GROUP (FY 2006) Once beset by labor trouble and red ink, the company has soared into profitability. Sales $28.2 billion Profits $1.2 billion Employees 103, 127 Passenger planes AF 254 KLM 190 Destinations 225 in 109 countries Stock Ownership French state: 18.6% Employees...
Higginbothom said that these rankings were particularly meaningful to the Af-Ams Department because “when black studies were brought to campuses they were first viewed as not a serious academic field...
...push forward with the tenure case of hip hop scholar Marcyliena Morgan, whose last bid for tenure at Harvard two years ago was blocked by then-President Lawrence H. Summers.If Morgan and her husband, sociologist Lawrence D. Bobo, accept Harvard’s entreaties, the move will allow the Af-Am Department to regain some of the star power that it lost during Summers’ five-year term. Bobo previously was the Tishman and Diker professor of sociology and Af-Am studies at Harvard, and Af-Am faculty members say that he is welcome to return to Cambridge...
...previous occupant of the Fletcher chair.“It makes it even more special that my dear friend Cornel West was the first incumbent of this professorship,” said Gates, who has been honored with a National Humanities Medal and a MacArthur Fellowship.Last week, Af-Am Chair Evelynn Brooks Higginbotham informed the departmental faculty that West will not be returning to Harvard, a long-discussed rumor.“He’s decided to stay because of the big initiative in Af-Am studies there,” said Gates, referring to Princeton?...
African and African American Studies: If you haven’t taken an Af-Am class yet, this is the semester to start. Glenda Carpio’s two new classes, Af-Am 112: “Black Humor” and English 176x “Black Women Writers” are garnering rave reviews, and word is, she’s developed quite the following on campus. Tommie Shelby’s Af-Am 128 “Black Nationalism” is also supposed to be quite good, but may be intended for the more serious scholar...