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Among the Faculty and Administration, the hunt for the "Communist Monster" was just beginning to infiltrate University politics. In November, Massachusetts Attorney General Clarence A. Barnes filed a bill calling for the exclusion of communists from positions in all universities and secondary schools. Because communists could not be termed members...
Christensen touted Dobson's endorsement in his ads, but the G.O.P. star tanked at 28% (and wept like a baby), upset by the moderate Johanns, who pointedly criticized Christensen for his homophobia. Could people be seeing that the Christian right is not very Christian? The golden rule doesn't include...
"This is, essentially, the end of armed struggle," Hillenbrand says. "And it's especially big because of two contradictory elements, both Sinn Fein and the Protestant paramilitaries, are aboard." To the south, in the Irish Republic, the endorsement was even stronger. According to preliminary results, 95 percent have voted not...
The Faculty also approved an amendment proposedby the Faculty Council, which stressesdepartmental involvement in designing aid packagesand the role of graduate students in teachingundergraduate courses.
Earlier this month, the House ofRepresentatives defeated the Riggs Amendment tothe Higher Education Act, which would have endedfederal funding to schools which continued to useaffirmative action in admissions. Rudenstine waswidely cited for playing a role in the amendment'sdefeat. He used a number of mechanisms, includingHarvard's institutional weight, to...