Word: professor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were killed during the last year of the Shah's regime. Others are disappointed that the trials are not public so that the facts of life under the Shah could be brought into the open. "The reason the executions were committed so promptly," says Younes Benab, an Iranian professor of economics in Washington, "is that there is fear in Iran that there may be another coup...
...make a statement of the case at the beginning of the trial and turn the rest over to the lawyer hired by the victim's family. Kentucky Attorney General Robert Stephens sees no legal or ethical barrier, but former U.S. Attorney General Edward Levi, now a law professor at the University of Chicago, has some doubts. He warns that the judge must be careful to see that the defendant is not getting railroaded...
...energy crisis exists. If the crunch is for real, they wonder how bad it is, who caused it, where it is leading, and what should be done to cope with it. For the answers, TIME interviewed at length five leading independent oil experts. They are: Morris Adelman, 62, professor of economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Walter Levy, 68, the dean of petroleum consultants and adviser to governments and oil companies; John Lichtblau, 57, head of the private Petroleum Industry Research Foundation; Arnold Safer, 42, an economist of Irving Trust Co.; John Sawhill, 42, president of New York University...
...ability to persuade an audience to suspend disbelief. Walter F. Murphy persuades. In his hands, the audacious thesis of this massive, complex first novel becomes fascinatingly logical and intellectually gripping. No better fiction on the world of the Vatican is now in print. Murphy, a Princeton law professor, is a compulsive storyteller, and in The Vicar of Christ he tells three tales that could have made books in themselves. Part 1, reliving Declan Walsh's military adventures in Korea through the ripely phrased recollections of a Marine master gunnery sergeant, is a crisp, realistic novella. Part 2, narrated...
...platoon leader, he won the Purple Heart and the Distinguished Service Cross, then came home to teach government at the U.S. Naval Academy. Mustered out in 1955, he took his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Since 1958 he has taught at Princeton, and in 1968 was named McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence. He has written six books on law and politics, one of which figures as an inside joke in The Vicar of Christ: the Associate Justice narrating the second part cites a title from a certain "vulgar political scientist...