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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Joseph Boskin, a professor of American social history at B.U., said his colleague's devotion to teaching was truly extraordinary...

Author: By Benjamin M. Grossman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: B.U. Political Science Professor, Scholar-Activist, Dies at 72 | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...addition to his devotion to American social issues, Levin also had a lighter side...

Author: By Benjamin M. Grossman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: B.U. Political Science Professor, Scholar-Activist, Dies at 72 | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

Levin is the author of several books, including The Alienated Voter: Politics in Boston (1960), two books on Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.), and Talk Radio and the American Dream...

Author: By Benjamin M. Grossman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: B.U. Political Science Professor, Scholar-Activist, Dies at 72 | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...when the powers that be pitted a triangle-chested, all-American black guy, "Night Stick" (very much in the NCO mold here), against "Yugoslavia," a balding, grubby, stringy-haired villain waving a Yugoslav flag, that cynical side pushed to the fore. Did that country need any more punishment, symbolic or otherwise? I thought not, and amid the thunderous "U-S-A" chants I found myself cackling uproariously - and even flashed a passable Serb salute for a few seconds before getting scared and holstering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrestling — a Little — With My Conscience | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

Surprise! It was the American in a close one, and by the end of it all, "Night Stick" had sent the Serb stand-in running peevishly out of the arena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrestling — a Little — With My Conscience | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

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