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So, too, you can stay with Bond for news in the battle of the sexes, though he tends to lag a bit farther behind the times on this score. His partner in Eyes is (natch) a great beauty, but also (surprise) an archaeologist. Though Melinda (Carol Bouquet) has the annoying...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Eye on the Empire | 7/3/1981 | See Source »

Leaving a secure academic position at Columbia University to come to Harvard last spring was no scholarly retreat for Nathan I. Huggins. W.E.B. DuBois Professor of History and Afro-American studies. His acceptance of Dean Rosovsky's offer last year put him at the helm of a department that has...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: Huggins at the Helm of Afro-Am: An Academic Question | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

The often-held belief that the department exists merely as a concession to the militancy of Black students in the late 1960s, and that it operates without the support of a large portion of the University's faculty and administration, may contribute to the reluctance of scholars to join its...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: Huggins at the Helm of Afro-Am: An Academic Question | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

Huggins maintains that the pressured and emotional situation at the time of the Faculty vote in 1969 to form a full-fledged department contributed to the perception that the department existed as a political concession for at least a decade. In an emotion-charged meeting during April 1969 the Faculty...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: Huggins at the Helm of Afro-Am: An Academic Question | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

Putnam's statements drew fire from undergraduates who charged Putnam and the Corporation with attempting to take advantage of a temporary lull in student activism in order to retreat from the sole concession they had made in April 1978, when 3000-plus protestors demanded complete divestitutre.

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, | Title: The Keeper of the Keys | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

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