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...mixed record has caused problems for the U.S. When an army patrol shot and killed a U.S.-employed linguist and three companions in February 1983, Ambassador Frederic L. Chapin asked Mejía, who was then Ríos Montt's Defense Minister, for an explanation. But none of Mejía's responses were satisfactory. Then in November two more linguists working on a U.S. AID program were found burned to death on a rural highway. The Guatemalan government called it a highway accident, but the U.S. embassy suspected that some members of government security forces...
...Linguist Noam Chomsky, Biologist James Watson, Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson and Psychologist B.F. Skinner. At a time when America is railing anew against its loss of educational vigor, Harvard's Society of Fellows last week quietly celebrated 50 years of high, uncompromising standards and remarkable accomplishment...
...midlife, Wilson was regarded as America's leading man of letters, a redoubtable scholar and a critic whose opinion could make or break a literary reputation. Critic Malcolm Cowley called him a combination of Dr. Johnson, Carlyle and Sir Richard Burton, the 19th century British explorer and linguist. Readers turned to his columns in The New Yorker, Cowley wrote, "to see what in God's name he would be doing next...
Harvard's top Semitic linguist will leave the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations this June--11 years before he reaches the University's standard retirement age, 66 in order to continue his research privately...
Other lecturers discussed the draft, the U.S. government's policies during and after the war, and the war's social effects, especially for veterans. The speakers included MIT linguist Noam Chomsky and Boston University sociology professor Michael Useem...