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Thirty years ago, Harvard students studying government could attend lectures by professors with names like Kissinger and Moynihan. Today, though the department as a whole is considered the best in the country, the branch devoted to the study of American politics sits, at least according to one former member, on the brink of crisis...
...years ago, the department offered a tenuredposition to Duke Professor John H. Aldrich, butAldrich ultimately decided to stay in Durham...
...University of North Carolina's James A.Stimson, who was offered a senior position over ayear ago, doesn't find the lure of Harvardimpossible to resist either...
...except he's dead. So probably not laughing. But though I'm not sure who won that little battle, I sure lost it. I needed to read for my history paper but didn't get to. I didn't get to because one rich college kid died 70 years ago and more to the point, because someone somewhere still cares. Never mind the fact that the University irreverently uses the sanctuary as a reception venue for presidential fundraising events...
...Jordan thing--two years ago, when I was a sophomore and he was a freshman, the Penn newspaper called me up, and they were trying to get this whole Jordan-Hill thing started up," Hill says. "But I didn't take the bait. I didn't give them too much to write about...