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Travel may have picked up since the guns stopped firing five weeks ago, but Saddam Hussein's war is still claiming victims. Chicago-based Midway Airlines, its strength sapped over the winter by the war-induced spike in fuel prices and slump in travel, flew into the shelter of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week, joining recent arrivals Continental Airlines and Pan Am (with TWA circling overhead). Midway's jets continue to fly, thanks in part to a $40 million loan from Continental Bank, which will be first to be repaid if the airline fails in its attempt to reorganize...
...This fall, Afro-Am had literally dwindled down to nothing. Under heavy pressure, the administration has finally discovered Afro-Am, pursuing professors across the nation with offers of inflated salaries and other perks. These frantic moves have begun to reap dividends, as luminaries like Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Spike Lee have agreed to accept Harvard posts...
...CORNED BEEF sandwiches appear in the dining hall and, within weeks, both Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Spike Lee decide to come to Harvard. Of course, no one is suggesting that the appointees accepted positions at Harvard due to a sudden unexplainable craving for cold cuts. But I do believe that the two fortunate events are some-how linked--not in substance, but in the creative inspiration that led to their succesful implementation...
...both situations, administrators were able to simultaneously work both within and around restrictive traditions. No one can reasonably argue that Spike Lee is worthy of tenure at Harvard--we all know that Harvard barely considers teaching skills in its tenure appointments. And his accomplishments, however noteworthy, could hardly be called scholarly. But does that mean that there is no place for Lee at Harvard...
...Spike Lee-corned beef connection