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...Department's introductory course, taught by assistant professor Ephraim Isaac, enrollment has increased from 41 to 47 students, Guinier said...
...recruiting professors for the program, Harvard chose men who are uniformly competent and in some cases outstanding. The introductory course in black civilization, for example, is being taught by Dr. Ephraim Isaac, a lecturer from Ethiopia who speaks seven languages fluently and holds a number of degrees, including a recent Ph.D. from Harvard. Fred Clifton, another visiting lecturer who teaches a course about Boston's Negro community, is the kind of man blacks more often have in mind when they discuss the "qualifications" that professors in Afro-American studies ought to have. Clifton has only a B.A. degree...
...reserved compassion. It stars a familiar picaresque hero-victim who is destroyed by the world's perversions during a quest for the ideal love-object. Although it is replete with sex orgies and James Bondian power fantasies, the satire is based on the story of Abraham and Isaac. In Charles' existential updating, however, there is no sacrificial ram to substitute for Isaac and no hand of God to stop Abraham's knife. The New Satyricon often reads like a pegged-leg parody of both William Burroughs' Naked Lunch and John Barth's Giles Goat...
Four months after the murder of Kenya's brilliant young Economic Planning Minister Tom Mboya, prison officials in Nairobi announced tersely last week that Nahashon Isaac Njenga Njoroge, the Kikuyu tribesman convicted of the shooting, had been hanged secretly "in accordance with the law." The officials refused to disclose the date or details of the execution, but it was reported in Nairobi that Njoroge had died at 3 a.m. on Nov. 8. According to these reports, he went to his death without explaining what he had meant when he asked police after his arrest...
...tragedy of the war was that it had divided the American people and agreed that it should be ended because it has kept the country from doing more about its domestic problems. "It's drained too many resources from this country-its manpower, its leadership, its resources," said Isaac Young, mayor of Olivette, Mo. "It's set this country back many years in solving its own problems...