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...psychological resonances that sound long after this remarkable book is closed. A few are comic, like James Thurber's If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox, a portrait of the crocked general handing over his sword to an astonished Lee. In two cases, stories provide a mirror effect. Isaac Babel's The Death of Dolgushov concerns the inability of men fully to apprehend the griefs and atrocities of battle; Doris Lessing's Homage for Isaac Babel is about the inability of children to comprehend the depths and subtleties of Babel's deceptively plain fictions. But most...
...Isaac F. Silvera, an American experimental physicist at the University of Amsterdam, Holland, will join Harvard's Physics Department next fall, bringing to an end a search that has lasted interminently for more than five years...
...then ran toward the Dome of the Rock, one of the two main mosques on the Temple Mount. The rock, at the center of the shrine, is the traditional site where Abraham is said to have offered Isaac as a sacrifice. It is also the place from which, according to Muslim tradition, the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven on a horse. As an Arab guard attempted to block his entry to the mosque, Goodman shot and killed him, then fired wildly into a group of tourists who had raised their hands as a sign of surrender. A rain of shattered...
...Isaac's case has become a rallying point for some of those interested in the department because it appears he was denied tenure because his specialty is Ethiopian history. Dayna L. Cunningham '80, an organizer of the alumni group, said this week. The department is trying to limit its academic locus to post slave trade. America and is purging it self of Africanists, she added...
...alumni committee will continue to concern itself with the issue of "academic integrity," and particularly the issue of tenure decisions, which it considers crucial to the well being of the department. "Our strategy is to bring the case in different causes." Cunningham said, "The Ephraim Isaac case will bring attention to the faculty hiring process," she added...