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...first homeland to accept independence, Transkei, at least had the distinction of being virtually a self-contained entity with an Indian Ocean coastline and a deep-water port. Landlocked BophuthaTswana, by contrast, consists of seven patches of territory scattered from the northwestern Transvaal to the Orange
...been involved in academic life since her father Hajo Holborn, a history professor at Yale, brought the family to the U.S. from Germany when Hanna was four. She married a fellow history student, Charles Gray, taught at Chicago for eleven years, then was appointed a dean at nearby Northwestern in 1971 before moving on to Yale...
Coming into the Country is actually three lengthy bulletins about Alaska, glued together like aerial reconnaissance photographs. The first describes a canoe trip that McPhee and four companions took down an unspoiled river in the northwestern reaches of the state, well above the Arctic Circle. Second, McPhee tells of a helicopter ride with a committee looking for a site on which to build a new state capital. The last and longest section covers some wintry months spent in Eagle, a tiny settlement on the Yukon River just west of the Canadian border-"a community deeply compressed in its own isolation...
Paul came to Harvard from Northwestern University, where he was vice president for health services and chief of medicine at Passavant Memorial Hospital. He is a past president of the American Heart Association and also served as vice president of the Harvard Medical Alumni Association
...academic of Palestinian descent teaching at an American University. No names were mentioned, but speculation centered on three potential negotiators: Edward W. Said, 42, a Jerusalem-born professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia; Ibrahim Abu Lughod, 48, a native of Jaffa who teaches political science at Northwestern; and Walid Khalidi, a Lebanese national who is a visiting professor lecturing on Middle East affairs at Harvard. Sadat said that Yasser Arafat had agreed to his proposal. The professors have denied receiving any offers...