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Anthropology professor J. Lorand Matory ’82, a leading scholar on the African diaspora who is known for his strong criticisms of Israel and his opposition to former University President Lawrence H. Summers, will leave Harvard next fall to chair Duke’s African and African-American studies department...
...Matory’s colleagues within the anthropology and African and African-American studies departments say that they are sorry to see him go. This fall he will give the University of Rochester’s Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture series, which he called “the most important lectures in anthropology...
...chair of the African and African-American studies department, Evelyn B. Higginbotham, expressed similar sentiments...
...nominee, his across-the-board opposition suddenly became inconvenient. Aid to Israel and military housing is funded through earmarks, so McCain had to make it clear he'd protect those programs from cuts. He made a similar exception during his anti-poverty tour in April, when he visited an African-American community in Alabama that got ferry service through an earmark. He then met a Pennsylvania woman with ovarian cancer who was being treated through a clinical trial funded by an earmark; he assured her that program was worthwhile too. "It's the process I object to," McCain explained...
...previous version of this story misattributed various quotes to African and African-American studies professor J. Lorand Matory '82. In fact, these quotes were from Associate Dean of the College John F. Gates. The article above has been updated to reflect the proper attributions...