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Until this year Koziara and Yaffe could have turned professional after graduation in the now-defunct Women's Basketball League. But each says graduate schools or other careers would have taken priority: Koziara feels the league was poorly run and had little chance of success...
Treating sexual harassment as an issue covered by Title IX, which forbids sex discrimination in education, the soon-to-be-defunct Department of Education funded the project "with the assumption that if not now, never," Orr said...
Black Liberation Army. A loose-knit paramilitary band, the B.L.A. had its roots in the now defunct Black Panther Party and claimed about 100 members in the early 1970s. The group, which was responsible for numerous assaults on police officers, was eventually weakened by the arrests of many of its members, including, in 1973, Joanne Chesimard, the so-called soul of the B.L.A. Her dramatic escape from prison six years later may have reactivated the movement...
Harvard formed the first tiddlywinks team in the U.S. in 1962. Organized by the staff of the Harvard Gargoyle--a now-defunct humor magazine--it was a premier potting team, well-stocked with players who could are winks gracefully into...
After World War II Levin played a major role in reestablishing Harvard's Comparative Literature department, which had become all but defunct during the war. Named chairman for the first time in 1946, he has chaired the department for more than 15 years at different times. He was also involved in forming both General Education and the Core Curriculum...