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That is the opinion of a broad array of scholars who said in interviews during the past two weeks that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will see its strength fade in the years ahead unless the tenure process is made responsive to Dean A. Michael Spence's stated aim of increasing the rate of internal promotion...
Well, maybe not at the well-wrought sentence or the lapidary essay. But that has never been his aim or his claim. Random House Editor Sam Vaughan accurately notes that "King is one of those rare writers with both a cult and a mass audience." And Barnes & Noble Buyer Ronda Wanderman ungrammatically observes, "King goes beyond horror like Danielle Steel goes beyond romantic fiction." Columbia English Professor George Stade probes further. The King novels, he maintains, "are not so different from the Sherlock Holmes stories, Dracula or Tarzan. We need these guys around, and we tend to read them more...
Chirac's sharp rhetoric last week reflected French indignation over the brutal wave of terrorist bombings in Paris that have left nine dead and 163 wounded since Sept. 8. The declared aim of the bombings, which have been claimed by the Committee for Solidarity with Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners (C.S.P.P.A.), is to force the release from prison of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, 35, a pro-Palestinian Marxist with roots in Lebanon's Maronite Christian community. The leader of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions (F.A.R.L.), a group that police say may be the same as the C.S.P.P.A., Abdallah is serving...
...meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the finance ministers and central bankers of Japan, Britain, West Germany, France and the U.S. closeted themselves for more than seven hours in Treasury Secretary James Baker's conference room in Washington to discuss the increasingly painful issue. The aim of the so-called Group of Five was to restore some semblance of unity to worldwide monetary policy. They failed to do that on Friday, but after a 4 1/2 hour Saturday meeting with their counterparts from Canada and Italy issued a bland communique. It said that "cooperative efforts need...
Lamenting that accounts of Harvard's 350th anniversary celebration in September had completely neglected the widely unrecognized Divinity School, Thiemann said, "Imagine a 400th anniversary in which the [school] is not only mentioned but plays a important role in defining the meaning and aim of critical and practical liberal education...