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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the controversy first arose as a hypothetical problem nearly two years ago, it was revived this fall when Latin American politics specialist Jorge I. Dominguez returned from a year's leave of absence. Dominguez was assigned to co-teach a seminar on comparative politics--the only course, students and department officials agree, which is designed to prepare graduate students for their general exams in the popular field. Students call the course "de facto required," though it is not specifically mandated to earn a degree...
...university is financially limited in the number of instructors it can accommodate. Harvard is further limited by its commitment to finding the best scholars in a particular field. Often, therefore, departments have only one expert per academic specialty, as is the case with Dominguez in Latin American politics...
...dictionary's staggering scholarship. Virtually every entry is meticulously catalogued for its geographic roots, first recorded usage, evolution of meaning and the most subtle shading of sound. Pronunciation Editor James Hartman particularly prizes manniporchia, a northern Maryland word for the DTs. The dictionary's investigators traced it to the Latin mania a potu, meaning craziness from drink, with the r tossed in from the habitual inflection of the region. "The detective work involved is exciting--to weird people," says Hartman. The white-haired Cassidy, already hard at the second volume and, despite his years, determined to see the heroic work...
Over the next month, the General Assembly is scheduled to hear from the heads of state or foreign ministers of 148 of its 159 member states. In speeches last week, a long parade of leaders inveighed against most of the world's ills, including Latin America's crippling $370 billion debt, famine in Africa, war and terrorism in Central America, Afghanistan and the Mideast, apartheid in South Africa, and the nuclear arms race. Amid the rhetorical hand wringing, Foreign Minister Suppiah Dhanabalan of Singapore cautioned, "There is a clear danger that this organization may become irrelevant to issues of peace...
...apparently not all academics agree. In February 1984, 12 members of the Latin American Studies Association, a national professional association of university teachers, journalists and lawyers, wrote a letter to President Derek C. Bok and then-Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky. In that letter, the professors said that because Bok had made no public statement about the Dominguez case, they did not feel they could recommend students to Harvard's graduate program...