Word: professor
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...demythifying process, argues Nina Tumarkin, professor of history at Wellesley College and author of The Cult of Lenin, is necessary if the Soviet Union is to right itself. "Lenin is being brought down to earth to make way for the new myths of perestroika," she says. If Gorbachev's political reform is more than a myth and the government is able to find its legitimacy in increased democracy, it might not need Lenin anymore...
...programs do not see them alone as an effective antidote to apartheid. Last week more than 200 black activists took another approach by opening what they referred to as a "defiance campaign." They marched to eight whites-only hospitals, where they demanded and received treatment. Greenberg, now a professor and dean at Columbia University, believes a wholesale change in the country's constitution is needed to eliminate white domination. Judges in South Africa do not have the power to strike down laws as unconstitutional, so Parliament can and does deprive citizens of their rights by passing statutes that the courts...
According to Montero-Seiburth, the panel of experts, which included Margarita Perez of the Children's Television Network, Professor of Anthropology John Ogbu at the University of California at Berkeley and Professor of Education Geneva Gay of Purdue University, was organized to answer the question, "What facilities augment better education for children...
...more cordial climate for such deals. Before Time and Warner were allowed to consolidate, many companies feared that an agreement to merge would be tantamount to putting themselves up for sale. But the Delaware courts affirmed the right of corporate directors to pursue long-term strategies. Says Harvard law professor Reinier Kraakman of the new precedent: "This gives managers who are planning a friendly acquisition or a merger of equals a chance to go forward without losing out to a hostile acquirer...
...lure him from academe and leave him adrift. This theme weighs a bit heavily on the book and keeps it from having quite the buoyancy and sparkle of Lodge's earlier campus novels, Small World and Changing Places. However, a pair of holdovers from those novels, the long-suffering Professor Philip Swallow and his American counterpart, the wheeler-dealer Morris Zapp, put in welcome minor appearances...