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Fairbank was accused by confessed ex-communists Elizabeth Bentley and Louis Budenz before the House Un-American Activities Committee of having had ties with the party. Although the Department of the Army did lift his travel restrictions in the spring of 1952, Fairbank was repeatedly attacked by critics as a communist sympathizer...
...newly-elected member of Phi Beta Kappa are, in Adams House: Avik Chatterjee, Elizabeth N. Dewar, Trevor D. Dryer, Matthew P. Feldmann, Martin A. Kurzweil, Nancy Liao, Kalina B. Manova, Robert R. Porter, David Soloveichik, John C. Tsou and Michael S. Weidman...
...Currier: Susanna M. Flug, Dana A. Gavrieli, Shiou-Huei Liu, Bryant G. Mathews, Melissa R. Moschella, Timothy K. Ruttan, Abby L. Schlatter, Elizabeth C. Tippett, Ian A. Tomb, Aryeh Weinstein, Kevin G. Williams and Soojin...
...combination of introversion and rigidity came as close as anything has to destroying her reign. The catalyst was the death of Diana, whose publicity-soaked campaign to become Queen of people's hearts resonated on levels Elizabeth had never contemplated. Courtiers could not initially persuade the Queen to fly the royal standard at Buckingham Palace at half-mast (it had not been lowered when her father the King died) or to make any convincingly warm gesture toward the memory of Diana-who had been leaking viciously against the Windsors for years. Angry crowds, furious commentators and smart advisers persuaded Elizabeth...
...watershed. Elizabeth would never try to touch people on the primal level Diana reached, but she recognized times had changed. No one expects an instinctively conservative woman in her seventies to overhaul radically her job of 50 years, which leaves those who want to reform or abolish it in an awkward fix. The Jubilee has prompted various suggestions for change: among them, that she should retire and that a system for picking an elected president be devised. But the republicans have no real leverage. For all its vicissitudes, the monarchy remains shockingly popular-70% prefer it over a republic...