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Fuentes who served as Mexico's Ambassador to France from 1974 until 1978 and has written 10 novels and three plays, was selected to speak by the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) after Polish dissident Tech Walesa declined the University's Commencement invitation on April...
While there is no official Harvard policy regarding academic refugees, most dissidents currently at Harvard credit individual departments or professors with smoothing their path to Cambridge. In the case of Polish poet Stanislaw Baranczak--now an associate professor of Slavic Languages--Professor Donald Fanger, then chairman of the Slavic department, contacted Baranczak directly in Poland in 1978 to recruit him as a replacement for a retiring professor. Baranczak immediately encountered difficulty in obtaining his exit visa, but he kept in contact with the department for three years and through six unsuccessful visa applications...
...that a university would favor American citizens to reduce the tensions of the job market," he says, adding that "American natives have certain advantages in getting tenure more quickly than scholars from Eastern Europe, for example." At some universities, American-born Slavic scholars have been preferred for tenure over Polish refugees with weak English skills. In matters of tenure, "There shouldn't be an exception for people from other countries," Baranczak says. Tai agrees: When you think of someone for an academic position, he says, "you think of his qualities, not his biography...
...drawn to the Saudi donations only because of some larger fear of Saudi influence in our society. Many Americans feel that through their prodigious investments, the Saudis are taking control of fundamental domestic institutions. By contrast, Keenan notes, there was little controversy more than 10 years ago when a Polish national donated the funding for the Jurzakovsky Chair for Polish Language and Literature, a chair currently filled by Professor Stanislaw Baranczak. "The thing that makes people ask question is that the money comes from Saudi Arabia," the dean suggests, adding. "If we had two grants from two Icelandic citizens, people...
...winners. The company, for example, broke industry tradition in 1961 when it began selling Cover Girl cosmetics in supermarkets, drugstores and discount centers rather than department stores. It also successfully went its own way by marketing a Limited number of shades for four basic Cover Girl products: lipstick, nail polish, eye makeup and facial makeup. Noxell's competitors usually load up store shelves with a bewildering array of choices. Noxell's policy allows it to hold down costly inventories. According to a report by Merrill Lynch, "Cover Girl has the fastest inventory turnover at retail of any major...