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Jesse Jackson, which debuts this weekend on 129 stations, will be something of a cross between Donahue and This Week with David Brinkley. Each hour will focus on one topic, opening with a taped report followed by a round-table discussion led by Jackson. A live studio audience will be on hand, and show- biz celebrities may appear occasionally. The program will feature other unconventional elements, including dramatic re-creations and newsmakers acting as reporters. On the first show, for example, Native American activist Russell Means will report on Indian living conditions from reservations around the country...
...improvised often, and indulged in some creative lyric making: "I go to extremes" became "I go for ice cream," and "I got a new wife, got a new life" became "I got a new wife on the cover of Life"--referring, of course, to Joel's wife, supermodel Christie Brinkley...
...denial of tenure to Alan Brinkley, a popular junior American history professor, caused a major campus uproar. Bok explained that he thought Brinkley's scholarship was not up to par, whether or not he was a popular teacher...
...faculty inaccessibility is really symptomatic of a larger problem, that of the low priority accorded to teaching within academia and, in particular, at Harvard. Case in point: American historian Alan Brinkley taught the most popular course at Harvard four years ago, receiving the Undergraduate Council's 1987 Levenson Prize for teaching. That year, Brinkley was denied tenure...
Last week, Princeton offered Brinkley a tenured position. Meanwhile, Harvard's history department languishes with 14 unfilled chairs, and students have begun to complain of a paucity of courses and professors...