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Angelika E. Laiou, an expert in Byzantine history, will join the History Department as its only tenured women July 1 when she becomes professor of History, pending Corporation approval...
...based on concern that the code would restrict free speech and free trade, touched off a wave of outrage, much of it in the U.S. Dr. Stephen Joseph, the top health official at the U.S. Agency for International Development, and Eugene Babb, the agency's top nutrition expert, resigned their jobs in protest. Joseph called the vote "contrary to the best interests of my country, inexplicable to my professional colleagues . . . and damaging to the health and growth of the world's children." Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts convened an unofficial hearing on the U.S. dissent, which...
...companies cannot sell to the Soviets has been licensed for production in Brazil, which is not bound by the embargo. The microchip, in fact, is a component in a popular computer game that is for sale in Western European toy stores. Says Samuel Pisar, a Paris-based international trade expert: "The U.S. and its Western allies have simply never formulated a consistent policy on exports of technology to the Soviets. Decisions on whether to sell or not vacillate continually, depending almost totally upon the political climate of the moment...
...predictions are what most trouble his critics. In the Ernest Smith case decided last week by the Supreme Court, the American Psychiatric Association filed a brief that questioned the use of testimony like Grigson's. Said the brief: "It gives the appearance of being based on expert medical judgment, when in fact no such expertise exists...
Frankfurter fancied himself an expert at "personalia," his word for charming, persuading and manipulating others. As a Harvard law professor in the '30s, he inaugurated the Cambridge-to-Washington shuttle, becoming one of the first of a long line of academics to serve as White House sages. While he personally stroked F.D.R.'s liberalism, he dispatched his best and brightest students, his "happy hot dogs," like Tommy ("the Cork") Corcoran, Dean Acheson and Alger Hiss, to mold the New Deal bureaucracy...