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...before McCarthyist committees. “Pusey got high marks for that,” Ells recalls. Still, reviews weren’t all-around positive. “The administration wanted to have it both ways,” Halberstam says. “The policy was to stand up for someone who had tenure and to weasel for someone who did not.”That left Kamin, a Ph.D candidate, and Furry, a mere associate professor, out in the cold. NAMELESSAfter Kamin was subpoenaed by Sen. William E. Jenner’s Subcommittee on Internal Security...
...boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. 3/17: The biggest blizzard in march since 1888 hits Cambridge. A second blizzard three days later causes cancellation of four exams, and liquor sales to go up.3/27: George P. Berry, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, backs Health Secretary Marion Folsom’s stand opposing increased federal aid for medical research at this time. The Faculty rejects the freshman petition for extended parietal hours on Saturday nights. 4/9: Committee on the Visual Arts recommends a $6.5m expansion in program to include a Harvard theatre and a new design center. Two days later, the Corporation...
...last few weeks during an ongoing government crackdown on peaceful protests. Like many of his fellow prisoners, Abdel Fatah is being held under Egypt's repressive, 25-year-old Emergency Laws, which allow initial detentions of 15 days that can be renewed indefinitely. The blogger and other activists stand accused of blocking traffic, assembling illegally in public, and insulting President Hosni Mubarak, 78, who was reelected in September on a platform of political and economic reform...
...Does this diplomatic initiative, which includes a new US offer to join the Europeans, Russians and China at the table, stand a chance of succeeding? Or is it all rhetoric...
...intimate, thoroughly immersive, deeply pleasurable activity. Who is going to DJ "Freakonomics," the opening chapter of "The Mill on the Floss," and one of Mr. Updike's golf poems into some grisly new work? The only people who will do something like that are the same people who stand most to benefit from bookscanning: writers! Book scanning...