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With the untimely death of Dubois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies Nathan I. Huggins in December and the imminent departure of junior sociologist Roderick Harrison, Afro-Am will enter the next academic year with at most two hold-overs from this semester.

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Afro-Am: Going Nowhere Fast | 2/2/1990 | See Source »

Dearing noted that his setter, Mark Mastin, had many kills by just tipping the ball over the net. Mastin's tip-overs and his teammate Mike Palazzo's blocks and spikes were three key reasons that led to the Crimson loss.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spikers Drop Match To Roger Williams | 3/24/1989 | See Source »

The novel, in fact, begins with a big bang: the blowing up, by Sikh terrorists, of a jumbo jet, Flight AI-420 from Bombay to London, at 29,002 feet over the English Channel. Two passengers, cartwheeling and conversing, plummet earthward. One is Gibreel Farishta, India's most popular movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Explosive Reception | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

Chandler is not, of course, the only American writer with a centenary this year who worked in a British bank, steeped his writing in the classics and explored the breakdowns of the age in cadences so memorable that he seems to have taken up a time-share ownership of Bartlett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Private Eye, Public Conscience | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

How hard it is to regard Bush and Dukakis in these epic terms. Viewed as comparatively little men at the time of their nominations, both have, if anything, been diminished by the campaigns they have waged. The ugliness of Bush's exploitation of the pseudo issues of patriotism and crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Differences That Really Matter | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

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