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What is captivating here is that Berkowitz wrote the review just before he went up for tenure in the government department, one of whose voting members in Thompson. Berkowitz explained his actions in Nesson's class as follows. Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic, suggested Berkowitz review the Thompson book after a prior Berkowitz review explored issues surrounding Alexis de Tocqueville, religion and civil society. Berkowitz had two (soundly politic) qualms--that Thompson is a colleague and that his own tenure review process was underway. After calling Martin H. Peretz, lecturer on Social Studies and owner...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: Berkowitz v. Harvard | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

Past recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom include former Senator Bob Dole, former surgeon general C. Everett Coop, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., public service professor of jurisprudence at the Kennedy School of Government, Eugene Lang, founder and chair of the "I Have a Dream" Foundation and Joan Ganz Cooney, the creator of "Sesame Street...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Coles to Receive Highest U.S. Civilian Honor | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...Leon Jaroff. Reported by Dan Cray/Los Angeles

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIX PARENTS, ONE ORPHAN | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...Leon Jaroff was off base in criticizing President Clinton's veto of the Clementine II program that would target an asteroid with a space probe [VIEWPOINT, Oct. 27]. The veto had nothing to do with asteroid indifference and everything to do with the fundamental weaknesses of the program. Clementine II is a thinly disguised version of the discredited "Brilliant Pebbles" missile-defense program of the 1980s, which posed major technical and treaty-compliance problems. The Air Force in 1997 did not want in its budget this Son of Brilliant Pebbles, masquerading as an asteroid-research program. Vetoing Clementine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 1, 1997 | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...Leon Jaroff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DAYS OF WINE AND MUZAK | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

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