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...last piece in the collection, "Errand," is not a story. When Marilynne Robinson reviewed Where I'm Calling From in The New York Times Book Review, she confessed that she was perplexed. "Errand" is the story of the death of Chekhov. Robinson supposed that Carver was inviting comparison between himself and Chekhov, but if so, she did not see it, much as she admired them both...
...Counter will be meeting with senior [CUNY] administrators this week to review the status of the Medgar Evers appointment," the source said, adding that CUNY, the parent school to Medgar Evers, would like the matter to be resolved "expeditiously...
...faculty committee, formed in response to a student report that charged the University with complacency in its minority faculty hiring policies, met for the first time this month and is undertaking a review of past records on affirmative action at universities...
...Committee to Review Affirmative Action will not hold additional meetings this summer, but each of the nine members will conduct research into Harvard's--and other comparable research universities'--past performances in hiring minority and women faculty members, Committee Chairman Sidney Verba said yesterday...
...state had never specified a minimum age in its death-penalty law. O'Connor stopped short of ruling on whether juvenile executions would be constitutional even in states that expressly permit them. That saved Thompson, but it left the larger issue at a standstill. The court has promised to review the question next year when it considers the cases of two other inmates on death row for crimes committed as juveniles...