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David Singer, professor of political science atthe University of Michigan, has written to me andother colleagues that Huntington "should not be amember of the NAS, even if it is Class V," on thegrounds "that he has neither the knowledge nor theinterest necessary to conduct [scientificresearch]," that he has an "ideological outlooksufficiently parochial to question hisidentification with the world-wide scientificcommunity," and that Huntington lacks competencein "matters epistemological." As Singer suggests,one can leave aside the claim made by Putnam inhis PS article, that Huntington is"avowedly patriotic." The quality of scientificdoings does not depend on their being "patriotic" buton...
...serving prison terms for previous convictions. Louis Beam Jr., 40, a onetime Texas Ku Klux Klan organizer, is still at large. The other seven were arrested last week. They include two of the nation's best-known preachers of Hitlerite philosophy: Aryan Nations Leader Richard Butler, 69, and former Michigan K.K.K. Chief Robert Miles, 62. If convicted, the defendants face maximum prison terms ranging from ten years to life...
...conspirators had transferred $3.6 million from California to Idaho. They also planned to set up a "secure nationwide computer system" to link scattered far-right groups. Authorities expect they have not heard the last of the right-wing brotherhood. White supremacists, says Kenneth Walton, head of the FBI in Michigan, "are very active in recruiting members in federal prisons. They will be released like time bombs...
...with "a sense of inadequacy, defeat and failure," says Kristine Kratz, a counselor with the Personal Development Institute in Los Angeles. And aging parents, who should be enjoying some financial and personal freedom, find themselves bogged down with responsibilities. Says Debra Umberson, a researcher at the University of Michigan: "Living with children of any age involves compromise and obligation, factors that can be detrimental to some aspects of well-being. All children, even adult children, require accommodation and create stress...
Shapiro, who--like Bowen and Spence--is aneconomist, received his Ph.D. from Princeton in1964 and then began his career at Michigan. The51-year-old Shapiro served as chairman ofMichigan's economics department and then as theuniversity's vice president for academic affairsbefore becoming its president...