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DIED. JEAN MACARTHUR, 101, widow of General Douglas MacArthur, who called her "my constant friend, sweetheart and devoted supporter"; in New York City. A witness to history, she shadowed her famous husband during war and peace, most notably at his side on a PT boat, dodging Japanese planes and destroyers, when he was ordered out of the Philippines...
...handful of professors in the TIE program, Dede assumes the post previously held by MacArthur "genius grant" winner Jan Hawkins, who died in February of breast cancer...
This past September 17, a bleachers-clearing brawl erupted at the MacArthur-Eisenhower football game in central Illinois. Seven Decatur high school students participated in the mlee and were consequently expelled from school. Their participation in the rioting is not in dispute--in fact, it was captured on video tape--and if it were not for one entirely incidental detail, there just punishment would probably have been carried out without protest. Unfortunately for Decatur school officials, the students they expelled happen to be black...
...mean people who have a tendency to answer questions with questions and to think not inside or outside the box as much as about the box itself. The intellectual may not get the recruiting job or the place in the U.S. Senate, but he or she may win a MacArthur Prize or be invited to Sweden for a hefty award down the line. Many of you may be recoiling in disgust, but if a good philosophical conversation interests you and you can't find the right conversation partner, then you know what sort of intellectual I mean is missing from...
Margaret J. Geller, professor of astronomy and winner of a MacArthur genius grant, says that she suspects the University is not as determined to tenure more female faculty as it claims...