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...department now has one and a half tenured professors--Southern and Ewart Guinier '33, who is semi-retired. The lack of senior faculty in Afro-Am drew harsh criticism last spring, as students held a series of demonstrations charging Harvard--and Rosovsky in particular--with failing to search aggressively for tenured faculty, depriving the department of funding and planning to demote it to an interdisciplinary committee...
Among the applause and cheers was some harsh heckling from a woman partisan of I.R.A. prisoners who are currently engaged in a "dirt strike," a euphemism for a protest in which they wear no clothes and refuse sanitary facilities. Later Thatcher helicoptered to the British army's most beleaguered Irish outpost, Crossmaglen, a heavily fortified and often attacked base in an area notorious for I.R.A. activity. Her speedy show of the flag in Ulster met with a sturdy rebuff from the I.R.A. Said a statement from the Provos: "The Iron Maiden's declaration of war is nothing...
...firstly, a charlatan, though rather a brilliant one; secondly, a great charmer; thirdly, frightened of nobody; fourthly, a man with plenty of logic and very few scruples; fifthly, I seem to have no real talent," wrote Sergei Diaghilev to his stepmother in 1895. It was an uncharacteristically harsh, but characteristically penetrating judgment. For two decades, until his death in 1929, Diaghilev's unscrupulous logic and charm dominated the stages of Europe. He founded and directed the Ballets Russes. He was the first to create theatrical spectacles with a mix of dance, painting and music. Under his guidance, Stravinsky...
...narcotics traffic from Mexico increased, he reluctantly became a "narc." For about five years, Lawrence and a select team stalked the desert like a posse out of the Old West. They seized millions of dollars' worth of drugs and airplanes, and scores of smugglers who had figured the harsh, 13,000-sq.-mi. wastes of the desert could serve as a safe private landing field. In one successful two-week camp-out near a remote airstrip, his team bagged a DC-10, two tons of marijuana, a four-wheel-drive truck and four smugglers...
Inflation has, of course, been seriously aggravated by a host of outside or "exogenous" factors that lie beyond the power of economists to control. They cannot be held accountable for poor grain harvests, such as occurred in 1972, for the harsh winters of 1977 and 1978, or for the weather of last year that cut into harvests in the citrus belt. Government economists also argue that price gouging by foreign oil producers is exogenous. True, but only partly so. Not only did inflation in the industrial countries encourage the 13-nation OPEC cartel to quintuple its prices...