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...still be at the Medical School, lecturing on preventive medicine and world health. Or he might be back in West Africa, helping fellow Africans survive the unending five-year drought. But, if he had his way, he would be home in what he calls "my little country," in Sierra Leone, where re-arrest and imprisonment may await...
...Sierra Leone were to suspend tomorrow the four-year-old state of emergency--declared the last time Karefa-Smart came home--and the government withdrew its warning to him to stay out of the country, he could probably be packed in time for an afternoon flight. His office at 641 Huntington Ave. is clearly a temporary measure, dominated not by a massive oaken desk, but by a few filing cabinets and bulletin boards. There is another map of Africa, perforated by colored push-pins, and an exhortation, carefully written in magic marker on lined yellow paper, to remember that...
...conducted 54 investigations for the Administration, some seemingly legitimate but others highly questionable. For example, according to a cryptic memo, he investigated allegations that the President's nephew, Donald A. Nixon, had been "involved in improper conduct, that drugs were involved, and love-making groups at Three Forks, Sierra Madre. Also concern of bribery." There was no indication of what Ulasewicz turned up. But in another case he looked into a "wild party" supposedly attended by Senator Edward Kennedy and decided that the allegation was "unfounded...
...civic groups--including Gay Media Action, the Sierra Club, and the American Friends Service Committee--say that Cambridge needs a public service format more than it needs religious broadcasting...
...work of the music department heavies-Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Max Steiner and Franz Waxman-stirs the sweetest nostalgic pangs. Only by hearing in isolation the sweeping romanticism of Korngold's Sea Hawk score or the brooding march Steiner used to drive the prospectors toward The Treasure of the Sierra Madre can one realize how much the music contributed both to the original success of these films and their afterlife in the mind. All by themselves, the themes evoke whole movies...