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Guinier had previously notified Nwafor that his appointment would not be renewed next year and said Nwafor "has his own ax to grind...
...FIVE lives that King has chosen to review in detail in his book illustrate his conclusions well, closely reflecting the pattern of gradualism which conforms to the continuity model. He has assembled a familiar cast of Harvard characters: a small-town jock, a grind, an intellectual, a writer, a dilettante. They are easily recognizable, if sometimes boring...
...department has been deluged with requests from outside the University seeking advice on how to set up an Afro-American Studies program, Guinier added. Guinier said that Nwafor "has his own axe to grind." Nwafor's five year term appointment as an assistant professor runs out next June and he has received notification from Guinier that he will not be reappointed. Guinier said that Nwafor or any other junior member of the department should present himself to the committee seeking additional tenured Afro-American Studies faculty members...
This is an imitation movie. It wraps itself in its ambitions to the point where the basic concerns of character and credibility are ignored. Although its basic idea is promising, Sarafian, Miles and Reynolds grind its potential into the ground...
...slop. Grind, clunk. Dollars...