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...When we started there was nothing about the Middle East here [at Harvard] in the post-World War II era," he says. "So I was working with the anthropologist Carl Coon trying to get a program started. At that time there was only the Semitic Languages Department, and that was kind of dormant...
Unfortunately, Frye says, Coon soon left to do work at the University of Pennsylvania, where he felt there was more support for a Middle Eastern Studies Program. Frye was left to administrate most of the expansion of Harvard's program alone. Despite this seeming setback, he succeeded in capturing the interests of University officials, who decided to consider how Harvard could set up a Middle Eastern Studies Center...
...gymnastics, officials were also in the thick of the fight. Judge Ellen Berger, a pin-eyed East German with the soul of Leo Durocher, detected a U.S. irregularity involving the bat boy. Poor Rhonda Faehn: three years ago, at 14, she left Coon Rapids, Minn., for Houston to tumble with the other dolls at the trick knee of the Rumanian defector Bela Karolyi. When she missed making the Olympic team by 0.1 point, he brought her along as a roustabout. Docked 0.5 points for Faehn's harmless presence on the platform, the U.S. women lost the bronze medal...
...armed conspiracy of the crackpot right. She falls in with, and then in love with, Gary (Tom Berenger), the man of her darkest dreams. For such a paranoid gent, he is pretty quick to accept Cathy. Before you can say "George Lincoln Rockwell," he has invited her to a "coon hunt" -- ten white men having fatal sport with one innocent black. Before you can mutter "Zionist Occupation Government," he has taken her on dates to a paramilitary campground, a bank robbery and a political assassination. (Guess it beats dinner and a movie.) As Gary's angel-face seven-year...
...Reagan Cabinet Memoir, to be published next year by the Free Press, Bell blasts unidentified "mid-level right-wing staffers at the White House" for a more disturbing characteristic: a proclivity for "sick humor and racist cliches." Examples: references to the late Martin Luther King Jr. as "Martin Lucifer Coon" and comments during discussions about the Middle East that Arabs were "sand niggers...