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...amputation of his right leg just below the knee. Ironically, he was the only U.S. casualty during the raid. Kerrey has difficulty plumbing his own feelings about having been crippled at age 26. In 1986 he appeared before a 900-student class at the University of California at Santa Barbara as a guest lecturer on the impact of the Vietnam War. Recalls Walter Capps, who initiated the course: "He gave a textbook lecture. It was almost as if he was going for tenure. A woman student complained, 'You haven't told us how you felt.' Kerrey looked at me helplessly...
...meeting had been going well," says Nelson. "The sit-in was a decision that the concentrators felt that they had to make and we admire them for that. But we are not sure what action is best. We agree with the chairman of the department [Barbara Johnson] that it was a good thing to do, but there may be better means available...
...last year, we were pretty sick of talking," says Jeanne F. Theoharis '91, who also participated in the sit-in. "With Barbara Johnson coming on as a new chair, it seemed like she could turn things around. But, two weeks ago, we realized that things hadn't changed...
...Barbara Haber, curator of books at the Schlesinger Library upon the donation of more than 2000 cookbooks by famed telechef and Cantabrigian Julia Child...
...MOMA's 1990-91 season. For the past few months one has heard the baying of critics as they hurled themselves against the turkey wire, eager to fix their fangs in it. Old-style formalities like seeing the exhibition or reading its catalog were dropped as writers like Barbara Rose in the Journal of Art expressed their proleptic disapproval of what the show would be and do. And when at last it opened, Roberta Smith in the New York Times denounced it as "a disaster . . . arbitrary, peculiar and maligning." More maligned than maligning, one might think...