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Hardly anyone expects Papandreou to do that. But if the Harvard-educated economist and former Berkeley professor has a proven track record for anything in politics, it is for mercurial gestures. A onetime U.S. citizen who reverted to Greek citizenship in 1964, he seems to have thrived during his first term on ruffling feathers among the Western allies. The exponent of a nebulous "Third Road to Socialism," Papandreou irked the Reagan Administration by dubbing the U.S. the "metropolis of imperialism." Even though Greece has been a NATO member since 1952, he opposed the alliance's decision to deploy cruise...
Elsewhere across the nation the annual commencement rite climaxed a season of . other ups and downs in academe. Protest was up, including more than 1,700 arrests at Cornell and Berkeley in demonstrations over university investments in corporations doing business in South Africa. At some big state university systems, grades were down: tougher standards cut the number of A's more than 4% at Cal State and 3% at Penn State. Old-time values were up: University of Wisconsin-Madison students voted Mom and Dad their No. 1 heroine and hero (runners-up: Mother Teresa and Jesus Christ). Law school...
...sociologist also has an outstanding offer from the University of California at Berkeley, said Geoffrey Keppel, dean of social sciences there...
Skocpol's husband William, who is a physicist at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, is currently looking for job opportunities in the Cambridge and Berkeley areas, Skocpol said. There are no job possibilities for her husband in the Chicago area, she added...
...doors to a main campus building for three weeks in April. At Cornell, students set up a shanty town in the main quad, vowing to camp out until the university divests its South Africa related stock. Students temporarily occupied buildings at Tufts, Rutgers, and University of California at Berkeley, and on April 4 Berkeley called a "National Student Strike Day," asking students nationwide to boycott classes and conduct anti-apartheid protests...