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Often, Joyce Carol Oates' creations suggest 19th century romantic novels: a Tolstoy heroine tuned to the breaking point over the frets of love, a Dostoevsky soul glutton, a Stendhal glory hound. The settings, however, are strictly 20th century American, illuminated by sheets of cold neon. Urban infestations where "taxes are rising and the tax base is falling," suburbs that miraculously exist for hours without the visible presence of human life, transitional neighborhoods where elderly holdouts keep their white elephants alive by secretly feeding them boarders...
Michael L.C. Henderson, 29, who entered the Divinity School last year as a Rockefeller Fellow, was appointed last week to serve for the academic year by Krister Stendhal, dean of the Divinity School...
...With the background of his law practice, Henderson seemed like an unusual candidate. The fact that he was a student was incidental. There was no special attempt to find a student. We wanted someone who wouldn't be too dislocated by taking the job for only a year," Dean Stendhal explained...
Henderson said that he and Dean Stendhal have discussed expanding the School's black recruitment program, and starting a professional career placement service for Divinity School graduates as possible projects during Henderson's term in office...
...Right now I really don't have too many plans of my own," Henderson said. "But it would be nice to do a satisfactory job, and have Dean Stendhal think so too, when I turn back into a pumpkin on June...