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What's worse is the apparent disregard the University has for the department. Afro-American Studies has been cast aside as a relic of political activism and radicalism. It is treated more as an annoyance than as a meaningful contributor to Harvard. In such an atmosphere there is no real opportunity to receive a meaningful and vital education. At Harvard, it seemed to me, there was no hope, nor any future in Afro-American Studies...
Sparks is familiar with life in the townships and cities, but the ethos of contemporary South Africa is conveyed with even greater intensity in Richard Stengel's January Sun. Stengel, a TIME contributor, has the eye of a Leica and the sensitivity of a light meter. He focuses on a single day in the Transvaal town of Brits, where three men spend their separate, unequal lives. Ronald de la Rey, a white veterinarian, parrots the Boer tradition: "I think the idea of apartheid makes you more aware of the differences between people than the similarities. It's in our subconscious...
...bust business has attracted some unlikely saviors. Shortly before it declared bankruptcy last month, Drexel Burnham Lambert beefed up a unit that advised distressed companies. The move was viewed with cynicism by some on Wall Street since Drexel, through its junk-bond financing of buyouts, was a prime contributor to today's bankruptcy boom. Other improbable rescuers include First Boston, which advised Campeau to borrow more than $10 billion to buy Bloomingdale's, Jordan Marsh and seven other U.S. store chains. Some critics attack Wall Street firms for profiting from both the debt buildup of the '80s and the subsequent...
...been a major contributor to the music department," said Professor Lewis Lockwood, who chairs the Music Department. "She is an outstanding teacher of undergraduates on the Harvard scene...
Stefan Kanfer, a novelist (Fear Itself, The International Garage Sale) and TIME contributor, proves to be a robust and resourceful stand-up historian as he deftly tills familiar and unfamiliar ground: the first Jewish settlers who tried to farm the Catskills' stony soil; the hotel owners who hit pay dirt in chopped liver; singers and comedians such as Eddie Fisher, Danny Kaye and Sid Caesar, who got their starts on Borscht Belt stages; the gamblers who fixed interhotel basketball games and corrupted some of the best college players of the early 1950s; and, finally, the real estate developers...