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...tenure decisions after the faculty has voted -- powers that provide him with some leverage. In fact, tenure is notoriously tough to win at Harvard, with the result that many promising untenured faculty members migrate out. Last year, for example, Bok vetoed tenure for Sociologist Paul Starr, whose 1982 book The Social Transformation of American Medicine had won a Pulitzer. The apparent reason: Starr was judged to be weak in the quantifiable data research deemed appropriate for a Harvard scholar. He is now tenured at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study...
...Harvard president could remain totally immune to criticism, and there are some who think Bok tends to speechify too much and others who think he should see more of the students. But on balance, he wins high marks. "Bok has continued to grow rather than rigidify," says Sociologist David Riesman, author of The Lonely Crowd. "He's a rarity." Law Professor Archibald Cox, whose experience with presidents includes being fired as Special prosecutor in Richard Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre, is equally enthusiastic. Bok, he says, "has set all the parts and players in harmony...
Some in the sports world argue that drug abuse among athletes is simply a reflection of a national problem. Harry Edwards, a sports sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who predicted back in 1981 that drug use would become a "big catastrophe" for athletes, theorizes that the U.S. has in effect become a "high" society. "The inescapable image emerges of a nation consumed in drug taking, both legal and illicit," says Edwards, adding: "The fact that we have by tradition placed our athletes upon a pedestal does not elevate them above prevailing cultural tides." University of North Carolina Basketball...
...reason that private enterprise is on the rise is clear. While capitalist nations, including the U.S. and the emerging countries of Asia, have been highly successful at creating wealth, socialism has largely proved an economic drag. Says Peter Berger, a sociologist at Boston University: "Socialist societies have been dramatically outperformed by any number of successful capitalist countries, especially in Asia...
...addition, many founding fathers from newly independent countries had been educated in the West, absorbing then trendy socialist ideas at influential institutions like the London School of Economics. Wrote Edward Shils, a University of Chicago sociologist: "The spread of socialistic ideas was aided by the large-scale migration of Asian and African intellectuals to Europe for further study and professional training." Once in power, they applied what they had learned...