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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only two assistant professors to be denied tenure since 1969 were crits. The second of these, Clare Dalton, asked President Bok in July to review her case. Last spring, she missed the two-thirds majority needed to recieve a permanent post by only three votes...
...legal publications began chasing reports that Biden, while a law student at Syracuse University in 1965, had plagiarized large portions of a law-review article for a course assignment. The story somehow got to CBS, which aired it, and it was true. Syracuse is investigating whether a faculty member violated confidentiality by talking about that incident. Craig Christensen, former dean of the law school, told Biden in a June 11 letter that his file had been locked in a safe. But a source who attended a Sept. 4 dinner with Christensen told TIME that the former dean discussed Biden...
...debate on sanctions is likely to be rekindled this week, when the State Department is scheduled to release its first annual review assessing the measures' effectiveness. In view of the Administration's past record, few expect the report to call for making current U.S. punitive actions any tougher, even if it deems the current sanctions completely unsuccessful. But there is little sentiment in Congress to abandon after only one year a program that passed amid bitter debate and provided at least the appearance that the U.S. was doing something about apartheid...
...commercials for such products as Silly Pate, an hors d'oeurve that picks up newsprint, bounces off walls, and tastes good on crackers. An "In Search Of" type show called "Bullshit or Not?" proposes that jack the Ripper was really the Loch Ness monster in disguise. On a movie review show, the critics discuss in seriousness such films as "Frat Slobs" and the Swedish import "Winter of My Despondency...
...best known is Joan Didion, a native Californian with literary and intellectual power bases in Los Angeles and Manhattan. Lengthy excerpts from her book, simply titled Miami (Simon & Schuster; 240 pages; $17.95), appeared over the summer in the New York Review of Books. Didion's credentials as ; novelist and essayist are well established. Play It as It Lays set the '70s standard for Southern California malaise, and her journalism was carefully calibrated to record fine cracks in sanity and personal relationships. She has expanded more recent reportage and fiction (Salvador, Democracy) to poke along the fault lines of the commonweal...