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...University has extended an offer to Duke University Professor K. Anthony Appiah. Appiah, who currently teaches philosophy and literature at Duke, will become the department's head tutor, if he accepts the lifetime post...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Afro-Am On The Rebound | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...Duke Professor K. Anthony Appiah is currently weighing a tenure offer from the University, and Wisconsin Professor Franklin D. Wilson may soon also receive an offer...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: He Wrote the Book | 6/4/1991 | See Source »

...else but Donald Trump could come up with a way to attract attention in Palm Beach, Fla., in the midst of the Kennedy rape scandal? The downsized duke of debt wants to subdivide Mar-a-Lago, the historic oceanside estate he bought in 1985. Trump plans to slice the property into nine parcels that could bring him a total of $30 million. But some locals oppose the plan, prompting the town's landmarks commission to postpone for a month its decision on Trump's application. He has warned that if the board turns him down, he will sell the mansion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trump: The Art Of the Threat | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

...early start is helpful. This Memorial Day weekend, Hudson Hawk, with Bruce Willis as a reformed thief forced to commit one last heist, will try to shoulder out Backdraft, director Ron Howard's fireman-buddy epic starring Kurt Russell and Robert De Niro. Maybe those two films will duke it out all summer. Or maybe they will cream each other and leave space for late May's gal-buddy movie, Thelma and Louise, with Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis. The success of T&L, or of Soapdish with Sally Field and Whoopi Goldberg, or of Warshawski with Kathleen Turner would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Blockbusters Are Made Of | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

...which sets the cap for Harvard's indirect costs, is auditing 13 schools, including Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth, Yale and Duke. HHS is currently negotiating with Harvard to establish a new indirect cost rate and has proposed a new provisional rate of 63.5 percent to replace the old rate of 88 percent...

Author: By Gady A. Epstein, | Title: General Accounting Office: Indirect Cost Probe Still in Preliminary Stages | 5/8/1991 | See Source »

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