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Today, black women returning to the Yard after the winter break only see one black female face among the ranks of the tenured Faculty: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, professor of Afro-American studies...
...Evelyn Levin, a sixtysomething artist in New York's Westchester County, had a tough decision to make. The bones in her hips, thighs and spine were losing mass. But Levin, whose mother also suffered from the general weakening of the bones known as osteoporosis, didn't want to take estrogen. Although the hormone can reverse the bone-weakening process, it may also increase the risk of breast cancer. So Levin volunteered for a study of an experimental drug called raloxifene, which may confer most of the benefits of estrogen therapy without the risks. Although her doctors won't tell...
Women like Evelyn Levin may be left weighing the potential benefits of the new drugs against their unknown risks. For example, asks Dr. Ethel Siris, an endocrinologist at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, "what do you do about the woman whose father had a heart attack and whose mother had breast cancer and also broke a hip?" Raloxifene won't make her problems go away, but it may give her a little more room to maneuver...
...Ganz sale lay partly in the excellence of some of its contents, but largely in the adroitness of Christie's promotion. If there were any doubts about this, they were dispelled by the results of other sales last week, which were mediocre. Two nights after the Ganz sale, the Evelyn Sharp collection of modern art went on the block at Sotheby's. It was a second-rate affair at best, chopped liver compared with the Ganz foie gras. The auction house had given the Sharp estate a guarantee, undisclosed but somewhere near the low aggregate-sales estimate, which...
Other Harvard dignitaries at the event included: Cornel R. West '74, professor of Afro-American studies; Deval L. Patrick '78, who served in the Justice Department during President Clinton's first term; Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, professor of Afro-American studies; and Angelica Z. Rudenstine, the President's wife...