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...dean for academic planning, will end, at least for the moment, a headline-grabbing tenure battle that began last fall when the Sociology department voted not to tenure Skocpol. She claimed sex discrimination in the case--a charge later upheld by a review panel--and Bok appointed an ad hoc committee to consider her tenure request. At that time Bok also announced he would make the final decision himself sometime this summer...
After the ruling by Rosenkrantz. Houtthaker and Hoffmann, Bok appointed an ad hoc committee--whose membership University officials have refused to disclose--and charged it with reviewing Skocpol and reaching a recommendation on whether she should be tenured...
...spokesman for Bok, who asked not to be identified, refused to say yesterday if the ad hoc committee had recommended that Skocpol either be granted or denied tenure. "In his view, the recommendation of the committee was not conclusive," the spokesman said...
Blackmun, who has moved increasingly to the left, probably works harder than the other judges on his decisions, which often reflect his ad hoc, personal sense of right and wrong. The courtly Virginian, Lewis Powell, is regarded as the great balancer, in the middle on almost every case. John Paul Stevens, the most original thinker on the court, is an iconoclastic loner who likes to file separate opinions that challenge old assumptions even when his conclusions coincide with those of his brothers. Byron White, the best pure lawyer on the court, is unpredictably liberal and unpredictably conservative, but meticulously careful...
MEASURE FOR MEASURE has always been one of the most problematic of Shakespeare's plays. It's kind of mutant tragedy, with fits of claustrophic comedy, in which the outcome is unsettling and the humor discordant. Nineteenth century critics often found the play, with its sense of ad hoc justice and seemingly black core, one of Shakespeare's worst; Coleridge even called it hateful. The twentieth century has looked more kindly at the play (less of a compliment than it seems) seeing in it a vicious and cynical tragi-comedy. Written in the middle of Shakespeare's career, Measure...