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...former fellows criticized current press coverage of politicians as too pro-establishment. Jack Nelson, bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times in Washington, D.C., said this is because President Ronald Reagan is "humorous, amiable and popular...
Elsewhere the mood of the special day varied from good cheer to quiet pride to plain antagonism. At the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 300 students demonstrated against the regents' refusal to grant an honorary degree to jailed South African Black Leader Nelson Mandela; later, new graduates listened politely to U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar's persuasions for peace on earth. At Haverford College near Philadelphia, former Secretary of Transportation Drew Lewis doffed his academic hood and rejected an honorary degree after 28 faculty members protested his handling of the air controllers' strike five years...
Putnam also said a Berkeley Professor, Nelson W. Polsby, will make a decision on a joint tenure offer by the Government Department and the Kennedy School of Government after a one-year stint at Harvard next year...
...atMad River when with Rusty Mead and John Hall orthe story of Red Dog Desloge's theft of a policecar? I remember the absolutely sinful delight ofzooming down Memorial Drive at midnight in earlyJune, finished for the year and free beyondbelief, astride my BSA 5000 motorcycle withPantaleoni and Eric Nelson on their bikes rightalongside...
Founded in 1912 by a group of middle-class Africans lobbying nonviolently for civil rights in British-ruled South Africa, the A.N.C. abandoned pacifism during the unrest that followed the 1960 killing of 69 blacks at Sharpeville. In 1964 Nelson Mandela, the leader of its militant wing, was found guilty of sabotage and sentenced to life imprisonment, and, a little later, the banned A.N.C. set up a government-in-waiting in newly independent Zambia. Today a few hundred A.N.C. employees coordinate cultural projects, run a radio station and even manage a high-tech 10,000-acre farm on which they...