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...addition, the committee recently came close to offering the chair to Saul Friedlander, a Holocaust scholar at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), with the expectation that he would serve in an interim capacity, the history professor, who asked not to be named, said...

Author: By Dafna V. Hochman, | Title: Holocaust Chair Decision Unlikely Anytime Soon | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...spite of a recent survey by UCLA researchers claiming that this year's first-years are more conservative, the Harvard campus has proven to be awash with liberal sentiment. Fortunately, Harvard has two Republican clubs and two conservative newspapers. By joining The Harvard Salient and becoming freshman-member-at-large for the Harvard Republican Club, I have found shelter from the storm...

Author: By Melissa ROSE Langsam, | Title: The Last Oppressed Minority | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...Army behind him, Robinson was mature and tough enough to withstand the taunts of racist fans and opposing players. He was married, to the beautiful Rachel Robinson, and hence no threat to the sanctity of white womanhood. And he was, literally, an All-American--in football at UCLA. Moreover, Robinson understood everything that was riding on the experiment. He left his natural combativeness in the locker room and endured incredible abuse without fighting back. He let his batting and base running speak for him--and they spoke eloquently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JACKIE ROBINSON: STEPPING UP TO THE PLATE | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...surreal plot of The Term Paper Artist. In the novella, the character named David Leavitt, distraught over the suppression of his novel and suffering from writer's block as a result, hides out at his father's house in Los Angeles and does halfhearted research at the UCLA library for a novel he's pretty sure he will never write. By chance he meets Eric, an attractive undergraduate, who invites him to his apartment to share some marijuana. Hoping for sex, Leavitt learns that the seductive Eric has a more complex transaction in mind: sex there will be, once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: TELLING A WHOPPER | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

...UCLA scored the first 11 points of the game and Jelany McCoy and J.R Henderson had 21 points apiece for the Bruins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: March Madness: UNC Nips Fairfield | 3/14/1997 | See Source »

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