Word: short
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, two top feminist scholars were on the short list of candidates for the position--Harvard Law School Professor Martha L. Minow and Duke University Professor Anne F. Scott. But both removed themselves from the list. Another candidate, Yale University Professor Judith Rodin, turned down Radcliffe's offer. The Board of Trustees should not have been surprised. What committed academic would want to be the president of a college consisting solely of three programs...
...really be that easy? Can memory be so short? Can history be rewritten by proclamation of the Beijing Communist Party propaganda department? Eerily, China's top leaders apparently believe that if they repeat the lie enough times, it will turn into truth. More chilling still, Chinese citizens outside the capital, with little access to independent information, seemed to accept the government's sanitized version of events. Perhaps they are relieved to be no longer teetering on the brink of civil war. Perhaps they find a military occupation, 1,000 arrests and a revision of history a small price...
...JOHN: IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD (Warner Bros.). When jazz meets up with rhythm and blues, it's usually less a shoot-out than a sellout: one or the other gets sold short. Dr. John, a surgical master at the piano and a good, gruff vocalizer, is one physician with a solid prescription to do both styles right -- and proud...
...Nothing short of mass expulsion will satisfy the more radical settlers. "The Jews who live here should be decorated for their patience," says Aharon Domb, 32, who runs a yeshiva in Hebron. From his bulging briefcase he pulls out an assortment of Palestinian weapons: rocks, metal spears, and spikes designed to rupture tires. By his count, 541 vehicles were damaged and 30 Jews injured in Hebron during April and May alone. "Look at what we have to live with," he says, displaying pictures of broken windshields and bleeding faces. "We accept that settling the land of Israel requires suffering...
...complained that the deal gave Time shareholders no immediate financial reward. "The marketplace has told us we can do better," said Time's Nicholas, 49. "We're still acquiring Warner, but now we're using cash." Nicholas acknowledged that the combined company's earnings would suffer in the short run, but he argued that the company's value will be evident to anyone who examines its assets. Under the earlier arrangement, the new company would have combined assets of $10 billion spread over 140 million shares. The revised agreement could spread that underlying value over about half as many shares...