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...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...
...Interestingly, Harvard doesn't deny that, saying they have the management right to determine the locus of the department." Landsmark said Nathan I. Huggins, chairman of the department, yesterday did not return repeated telephone calls on the subject...
George Bayliss's article on my insulting remarks towards Lesley college, which resulted in that institution's withdrawal of Summer Compass Program from the Cambridge Public School locus, failed to include some important background detail as to why the honor of that institution, and Dean Wiley, were impugned at the recent meeting of the Cambridge School Committee...
Well said, Sam. Belly may have become a derogatory word in modern times, but Johnson properly viewed it as the locus and focus of gustatory enjoyment and sensual wellbeing. Still, Johnson was at a beggar's banquet compared with the modern diner's choice of delectations: ingredients, recipes and techniques from the kitchens of the world. Not least of these blessings, to a Johnsonian, is the cornucopia of culinary literature. A good cookbook is a perpetual feast, and this year's table is well laden...
...office smells of Americana. Sedate, sterile, wooden--the white church in the middle of Medford Square conjures up the archetypes of old New England. What isn't dark or neutral is flag-colored, like the fife-and-drum wallpaper that peels at its yellowed seams. A red telephone, the locus, sits ominously on the pastor's oaken desk. When it rings, the sound is shrill, urgent, like the Oval Office hot line or the Batphone. But to Pastor Tom Michael, the caller on the other end transcends Zbigniew Brzezinski or Commissioner Gordon. For when the enemy is sin, each call...