Word: groupe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early March, Justin E. Porter '99 began the push to bring Delta Upsilon back to campus, and the core group of six has since grown in size substantially...
...Muhammad, the Nation of Islam's international representative, who lives in Ghana, was in the U.S. last week to visit the hospitalized Muslim leader. Muhammad told TIME that during Farrakhan's four-to-six-month medical leave, the organization will be headed by the National Board of Laborers, a group chaired by Farrakhan's chief of staff and son-in-law Leonard Farrakhan Muhammad. Sources close to the Nation of Islam say none of the candidates have the requisite religious credentials to lead the Nation, including Leonard Muhammad, Farrakhan's son Mustapha, 39, or younger daughter Donna, who is married...
Before 1993, the most likely heir apparent was Khallid Muhammad, the former supreme captain of the Fruit of Islam, the Nation's elite paramilitary security force, who is a gifted speaker. But he proved too extremist for Farrakhan and split with the group...
...basis that no one reads anymore. So they ask, 'Can we promote this?'" cautions Tristine Rainer, founder of the Center for Autobiographic Studies in Pasadena, Calif. Your memoir is marketable, according to Rainer, if it provides a glimpse into a unique world, reflects the social issues of a larger group or is just great writing. Even if you meet these criteria, convincing a publisher means sending out scores of query letters and bracing for the rejections...
...boldness of the grad students pits them against some of the professors they work for, who warn that collective bargaining will defile teacher-student relationships. Such high-minded claims are undercut by campus realities: many profs shirk face-to-face, small-group instruction and dump teaching responsibilities onto graduate students. Last month the Supreme Court upheld an Ohio law that prescribes a minimum number of hours that professors at state universities must devote to teaching. Says U.C. Berkeley grad-student activist Ricardo Ochoa: "We do about 60% of the contact with undergraduates. Our working conditions are the undergraduates' learning conditions...