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...Review of Books, the New Republic and the current home of his column, New York Newsday, Kempton's book calls forth a cavalcade of heroes and scoundrels of the past 50 years and more -- among them Benito Mussolini, F.D.R., Richard Nixon, Bessie Smith, Karl Marx, Goya, Roy Cohn, Cassius Clay and one Stella Valenza, a housewife on trial for "hiring three mechanics to rid her of her husband, Felice." To Kempton, the insignificant deserves as much attention as the momentous; he gives the auctioning of Marilyn Monroe's address book the same careful scrutiny as the postcommunism paralysis in Russia...
...took Chemistry 30 [Organic Chemistry] in the fall and Chemistry 105 [Mechanisms of Organic Reactions] in the spring, and I think he is one of the best professors at Harvard," said Clay C. Wang...
...play Princeton or Dartmouth," Burroughs said, "we'll be confident because we have already beaten them. If we play Columbia it'll be on our courts--not the clay courts indoors at Columbia--and we'll see it as a way to get revenge...
...Wallace D. Fard founded it in Detroit in 1930, allegedly upon arrival from Mecca. He disappeared a few years later and was replaced by Elijah Poole, renamed Elijah Muhammad, who reigned until 1975 over a black nationalist ! business and religious empire. Among its most celebrated converts was boxer Cassius Clay, later Muhammad...
Strangely, we live in a time when it is considered criminal that seven female graduates students might have been told sexually explicit jokes by Clay Professor of Scientific Archaeology Nikolaas J. van der Merwe. The students do not claim obvious transgressions such as physical assault or even the demand of sexual favors for career advancement...