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...truth is that the "University" understands, as the Crimson still does not, that our "failure" to appoint a senior historian of 20th-century American politics is a venial sin. We have continued to teach the subject while offering many other courses in American history, including some 14 undergraduate courses presently listed in 20th-century history...
Growing controversy and concern in the mental-health community has led the American Psychological Association to appoint a false-memory working group to investigate the phenomenon. At a meeting of the American Psychiatric Association last May, the issue of false memories was addressed in three sessions and heatedly debated by experts on both sides. The American Medical Association's house of delegates also indicated its discomfort with such memory-enhancement techniques as guided imagery, hypnosis and body massage, all of which heighten suggestibility and are widely employed by recovered- memory therapists. Use of these practices in eliciting accounts of childhood...
...proposed constitution significantly enhances Yeltsin's power. He has the right to name the prime minister, to dissolve parliament, and to appoint the head of the Central Bank, a crucial position in Russia's fledgling market economy. The constitution also makes it difficult to impeach the president, requiring a two-thirds majority of parliament and the consent of the constitutional court, the judicial arm of the Russian government. And by casting doubt on his earlier promise to hold presidential elections in 1994, Yeltsin may have also secured his position until...
...council decided that the committee itselfshould appoint its own chair...
...interdisciplinary committee, Ethnic Studies will still neither have the authority to create courses nor to appoint professors under its own heading, Buell said...