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Three blacks were convicted today in the racial murder of an American student last year after a long and divisive trial that garnered world-wide media attention. Amy Biehl, 26, a Fulbright scholar from Newport Beach, Calif. was in South Africa working on voter education and doing research on women's rights, when she was stabbed and bludgeoned to death in August by a mob near Cape Town. The conviction concludes a trial that dragged on for months because witnesses to the murder weren't forthcoming at first. But after they testified, "there was really no doubt in anybody...
Lucy Collins, a Fulbright Scholar from Ireland studying with the English Department said the discussions raised interesting and contemporary questions. "Some of them became so diverse and large it becomes difficult to tackle them here," she said...
...Cole earned a Ph.D in French literature in the University's brutally competitive Romance Languages and Literatures department. But as exceptional as he was as a scholar, Cole was an even better teacher. In 1990, he won the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a Harvard teacher: the Levenson Prize for Undergraduate Teaching...
Cole's students and colleagues at Harvard knew little, if anything, of all of this. Students and faculty say he was the rarest of combinations--a scholar who can teach in a dynamic...
...does seem healthy that a book such as Murray's can be published despite the prevailing American compulsion to avoid taboo topics. And Murray should be commended for his call to restore the traditional ideal of the scholar as someone who ought to "find the truth and disclose it." An inevitable result is that certain truths might prove disturbing to conventional wisdom...