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...Desirable Daughters and enter an unknown world. The book is packaged like so many other novels by Indian and Indian-American authors. It masquerades as another example of literary “chutneyfication,” an unthreatening dose of the exotic for the American reading palate. But this Berkeley professor’s latest novel is anything but a typical tale of immigration. Only its costume evokes the popular success of that genre...
...live in a world of uncertainties," says Harvard's [Herbert] Benson, "everything from nuclear threat to job insecurity to the near assassination of the President to the lacing of medicines with poisons." Through television, these problems loom up under our very noses and yet, says Psychologist Kenneth Dychtwald of Berkeley, Calif., the proximity only frustrates us: "We can't fight back with those people...
Seltzer, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and a team of legal scholars at the Internet clinics of Stanford University, the University of California-Berkeley and University of San Francisco, have started a website to counteract what they call the “chilling effects” of such scare tactics on free speech in cyberspace...
...L.B.S. - a graduate college of the University of London - recruited Tyson, 54. Before taking up her new post in mid-January, she was the only woman leading a major U.S. business school. She became dean at Haas in 1998, having previously taught economics and business administration at its Berkeley campus. The liberal, New Jersey-born economist earned her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has also taught there, as well as at Princeton and Harvard - where her son, Elliott, 18, is studying government. Tyson, in mock horror, fears he'll become a politician. Married to novelist Erik Tarloff...
...Kelly had on Astaire: his movies were far superior as integrated works of popular art. Astaire?s prime-time vehicles with Ginger were pretty inane, except for the glorious terping, and his directors added little but traffic management to the packed Astaire brought. Kelly worked for better directors - Busby Berkeley on "For Me and My Gal" and "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," Vincente Minnelli on "An American in Paris" and "Brigadoon" - but, as co-director of two of his best films, he could take a measure of credit for their success, even as Astaire, who was "only" the star...