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...Boston University deans who called for the ouster of B.U. President John R. Silber tendered his resignation this week in protest over the trustees' decision to retain Silber...
...will permit Crimmins to retain the funds, but such fund-raising will be prohibited in the future," Epps said after the meeting, adding that "because the students didn't know it we will let it pass...
...April 12)-enriched South African uranium. There was also a diplomatic dividend. Largely because of Arab pressure, 29 of the 33 black African countries that once had diplomatic ties with Israel broke them off at the time of the 1973 Middle East war (only Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius and Swaziland retain such ties). South Africa, said one Israeli diplomat, gives his country an entry to the rest of Africa: "We reach there not through the black door but through the back door...
...that the theories of contemporary writers like Henry Adams and Henry James had more to do with shaping American attitudes toward the Jews than did the achievements of the immigrants themselves. Even more importantly, Howe hints that the dominant opinion in America worked against the immigrants' struggle to retain their identity in the midst of a strange culture from the beginning. The children of the American dispersion are not the products of the new Jewish vision of individuality as Howe suggests, but of the old American vision of homogeneity. America is the true protagonist in this, and indeed any immigrant...
...least two of them together. They were unable to do it, because they are all working on publicity for the new edition of Our Bodies, and have very little time to spare. But Sanford says that despite their busy professional lives, the group makes a concentrated effort to retain the group's cohesiveness. The collective meets weekly, she says, and the women take pains to give each member an evening where they are the center of attention. sometimes, she says, this attention takes the form of working out problems that the member has been bothered by within the group...