Word: professor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last time the Overseers directly opposed a Corporation decision was in 1948, when several conservative overseers opposed a tenure offer extended to Walburg Professor of Economics Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith...
...government's sanitized version of events. Perhaps they are relieved to be no longer teetering on the brink of civil war. Perhaps they find a military occupation, 1,000 arrests and a revision of history a small price to pay for restoration of order. Perhaps, suggests a university professor in Shanghai, "the truth is too painful to accept...
...cuffed, signs detailing their crimes strapped around their necks. Hour after hour, run their "confessions" of wrongdoing on national television. Construct a new reality, one that checks democratic aspirations by preying on fear and paranoia. The result? "A week ago we were free to say anything," says a university professor. "Now I suspect everybody...
...Court, civil rights advocates are increasingly looking to the Democratic-controlled Congress for legislative remedies. Indeed, many of the Justices' rulings involve interpretations of federal statutes that could be easily overturned by passing new laws. "Hopefully, Congress will have the political will to do exactly that," says Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe. "The ball is back in Congress's court...
...controversial proposal is the elimination of tracking. While it is true that minority and at-risk students are often warehoused in low-level classes, a blanket insistence on cooperative learning may motivate parents of gifted children to abandon the public schools. "We need to be careful," says Stanford education professor Michael Kirst. "We certainly don't want to slow down kids on the fast track...