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Burton S. Dreben, professor of Philosophy and Dean Rosovsky's special assistant on forming ad hoc tenure committees, also agreed with the views Bok expresses in the letter...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Defending the Academic Market | 4/12/1980 | See Source »

...YEARS, the Afro-American Studies Department has lived from one crisis to the next, always lacking the stability and the faculty necessary to establish itself. After years of neglect, the Faculty has finally taken steps to rebuild the department. Recently, Dean Rosovsky, after an extensive search by an ad hoc committee, offered tenure in the department to three scholars in an attempt to establish a core of committed faculty who will try to set the department on a steady course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ill-Informed Protest | 4/2/1980 | See Source »

...Union than the U.N. General Assembly's mildly worded statement, fortnight earlier, calling for a Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. In addition, the Islamic summit, to which the Afghanistan government was invited but failed to attend, also managed to get the feuding Afghan rebel groups to form an ad hoc united front: the Islamic Alliance for the Liberation of Afghanistan. The front's spokesman, Burhanuddin Rabbani, former head of the faculty of Islamic law at Kabul University, told the conference that although Soviet troops controlled the main Afghan cities, roads and airports, the rest of the country was largely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHWEST ASIA: Outrage in Islam | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...love, my friends, and the hell with the rest." Novelist Carpenter knows better; the comedians' implicit longing for normality and humanity proves that. But Carpenter also knows that the simulacrum of love with which his comics are re warded is more than most people, leading their ad hoc, late 20th century lives, ever get. There is bite here, but no bitterness. The overall, and lasting, effect makes A Couple of Comedians an unusually literate and oddly touching novel about performers going through the sound stages of life. - Richard Schickel

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laid-Back Camaraderie | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

...little better than cosmetic. His budget request would fund only six more biologists for the endangered species listing staff in the Interior Department, a far cry from that department's needs. Carter should press for legislation that would abolish the review committee, and he should veto any ad hoc attempts to pass exceptions to the decisions taken by those charged with protecting the endangered species of this country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Save the Species | 1/23/1980 | See Source »

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