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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some time after his arrival here from the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago eight years ago, Professor Stager was made the director of the museum. Put starkly, he had zero interest in the work it did. A learned but extraordinarily narrow specialist, he saw the space and the moneys the museum uses as assets he could annex to his own archaeological enterprises. In this sense his war against the museum is an easily understood university quarrel. It's what one Harvard wag calls "space imperialism...

Author: By Martin Peretz, | Title: The Sabotage of The Semitic Museum | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

Suffering from a prolonged bout of depression and desperate for help, Melody Gavigan, 39, a computer specialist from Long Beach, California, checked herself into a local psychiatric hospital. As Gavigan recalls the experience, her problems were just beginning. During five weeks of treatment there, a family and marriage counselor repeatedly suggested that her depression stemmed from incest during her childhood. While at first Gavigan had no recollection of any abuse, the therapist kept prodding. "I was so distressed and needed help so desperately, I latched on to what he was offering me," she says. "I accepted his answers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Repressed-Memory Therapy: Lies of the Mind | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...ultimate victim of repressed memory may be the psychotherapeutic profession itself. "Therapists are terrified," says MPD specialist Kluft. "Many are feeling very hamstrung because they fear any time they ask a question, it can result in a lawsuit." Instead of seeing a patient "as a person in pain and in need of help," Kluft complains, "the therapist is looking at a potential litigant. Some people have discontinued treating trauma patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Repressed-Memory Therapy: Lies of the Mind | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

Harvard safety senior Tom Wynne wouldusually kick the ball off. But, in this situation,defensive back Ken Thomas, the Crimson's onsidekick specialist, readies...

Author: By Y. TAREK Farouki, | Title: The Game Of All Games: The 1968 Match | 11/19/1993 | See Source »

...addition, three point specialist junior Nicole Kronk, who tallied 12 versus Lee Strand, was forced to leave the team because of an academic scheduling conflict...

Author: By Mayer Bick, | Title: W. Cagers Prep for Season | 11/19/1993 | See Source »

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