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Harvard's Afro-Am department has only one permanent faculty member, a small pool of prospective junior professors, and an increasingly frustrated student body. And while administrators engage in a mad scramble to find professors to staff the moribund department, one young scholar has stepped in to help keep Afro-American studies alive during rough times...
Terada says that efforts to appoint senior faculty have thus far been unsuccessful because no scholar is willing to come to Harvard and build a department from scratch. But Terada says she thinks that situation could change if Duke Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. accepts a recent tenure offer from Harvard...
...think [Gates] would not only be an original scholar but he will be able to bring other people into the department," Terada says...
Patrick Clawson, a resident scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, is convinced that the Iraqis "will be in desperate straits by the end of 1991." There is general agreement among civilian experts that the sanctions will inflict severe damage in one to two years. But Clawson adds, "We're seeing a slow deterioration, not a collapse...
Strugnell's tenure was jeopardized by a November interview with the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, in which the scholar, calling himself an "anti-Judaist," declared that Judaism is a "horrible" religion with "racist" origins that in principle should not exist at all. "The correct answer of Jews to Christianity is to become Christian," said Strugnell, who denies he is an anti-Semite...