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...libel cases have dragged on longer or sullied both sides more than the suit by Freudian psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson against Janet Malcolm of the New Yorker, who pilloried him in a 1983 profile, that was finally brought before a jury last week. Masson, a scholar of Sanskrit who holds a Ph.D. from Harvard, contends that since the article was published he has been all but unemployable. No longer a therapist, he has written books including the critically acclaimed memoir My Father's Guru and recently taught media ethics at the University of Michigan, where he has been living...
Chowdhury, an economics and Sanskrit and Indian studies concentrator, is a resident of Leverett House and Yonkers...
Labor lawyers who handle such cases reported a surge in inquiries. Manhattan attorney Judith Vladeck vividly recalls giving a speech about sexual harassment to an American Bar Association group in 1980. "It was as if I were talking about something in Sanskrit," she says. "And these were employment lawyers." She now gets three times as many calls from women with complaints as she did before the Senate showdown...
...classics scholar--whose mastery of languages encompasses Spanish, Modern, Greek, Latin, ancient Greek, French, German and even some Sanskrit--began her teaching career at Maine's Colby College shortly after completing her Ph.D. at Princeton...
...Sanskrit title derives from two words: turanga, meaning flowing time, movement or rhythm; and lila, or love, sport, the play of the gods. The symphony's 10 movements, which last well over an hour, are rife with programmatic references to the ancient Celtic love story of Tristan and Iseult, to the myths of ancient India, even to the spooky stories of Edgar Allan...