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Harvard's Arne Duncan returns to Cambridge after taking a year off to research his sociology thesis in Chicago. Only in the Ivy League. (Sports Illustrated, Fall '86 college basketball preview...
...Duncan, the Harvard men's basketball co-captain who plays his last collegiate game tonight at Dartmouth, spent the 1985-'86 academic year in inner-city Chicago, working on his thesis and volunteering at a ghetto school...
...otherwise-improbable choice of location was far from accidental; Duncan, you see, comes from inner-city Chicago...
Ultimately, Duncan knows he wants to stay involved in the inner-city life he grew up with. "I really respect the [youth basketball program located at] Riverside Church [in Manhattan] and what Mr. Lorch has done and I'd really like to start up something like that in Chicago," Duncan says. "He's doing a lot of good, and I'd have a lot of fun doing something like that...
Skocpol--who had accepted a tenured post at theUniversity of Chicago after leavingHarvard--received an offer from the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley soon after Harvard extendedits invitation. Skocpol told Berkeley that shewould accept a lifetime post there, but thenspurned California in favor of Cambridge...