Word: profs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...church in Siena. Between lectures Usher gets involved in a gang war, a stratagem to rescue the Donatello, attempts on his life and gory efforts to derail Harrigan's shenanigans. He is assisted by an American pop economist, a rumbustious Boston newspaper editor, a skirt-chasing Turkish prof, a Swinburne-spouting I.R.A. turncoat, a high-level Treasury official with the unlikely name of Sir Olaf McConnochie - and the admirable Alyss. Though Davey's novels tend to be more whosaidits than whodunits, Treasury offers alarums and excursions aplenty...
...Kennedy School, recently released the preliminary findings of his study which found that "women and minorities at top universities often do not perform as well academically as their high aptitude tests would predict." He goes on to say that the reverse is true for Jewish students. But Prof. Klitgaard doesn't stop there. Because of this "problem" with standardized tests, affirmative action programs tend to create a student body with a wide disparity of academic capabilities. Klitgaard's solution to the "problem": perhaps if Blacks (Third World students?) attended "slightly lesser insitutions where they might compete as intellectual equals...
...World students at Harvard. Third World students representing Blacks, Africans, Chicanos, Boricuans, Asians, and Native Americans have called on Harvard to live up to its professed commitments to Third World students by providing a Third World Center. This demand is not unprecedented, for many of the "elite universities" (as Prof. Klitgaard calls them) have responded to similar demands of their Third World students and have provided Centers (Yale, Princeton, Wellesley, Dartmouth, etc.). Of course the university's response was the typical smoke screen--a committee. Perhaps alleged embezzlement/drug use does not merit committee investigation, nor even an investigation by legal...
...often as it misses when it relies on humor that is generally accessible, as it does in the second scene in the Somerville apartment. But the little lawyers continually rely on in-jokes, strings of innuendos and associations totally in-comprehensible to anyone alien to their peculiar colony. Prof. Peter Murray plays a Professor Perinifield in a scene in an HLS classroom: I think he is modeled on someone and I am sure he is very funny. There is another sketch at something called the Daily Gannett, which I think parodies the Law School newspaper, except I'm not sure...
Work Organization and the Future of the American Labor Movement--Irving Bluestone, vice president, United Auto Workers; and Prof. Quinn Mills; Kennedy School Forum...