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Gates, the chair of the Afro-American studies department, said West played a vital role in the transformation of the department into one of the leading black studies programs in the country...
...sponsor a concert by Pete Seeger raised questions of the utmost importance. And the administration’s decision yesterday to permit the concert, as long as Seeger is treated as an artist and not a political figure, makes it absolutely clear that their policy strikes at the vital heart of Harvard’s commitment to free inquiry...
...vital to the future of every individual that education be widely available to facilitate increased productivity, opportunity and living standards for everyone. The federal government blundered in 1998 and Yale, to its credit, is working to set things right. Harvard, as a finer institution than Yale, should lose no time in following suit...
...strength. Mubarak therefore risks becoming the prisoner of his own propaganda: If Palestine is all-important and Egypt that strong, why not use its strength against the Israelis? The least dangerous Egyptian move would be disastrous in its consequences. Violating Anwar Sadat's peace treaty, cutting itself off from vital U.S. aid, the Egyptian army could send part of its vast forces--say, the four tank divisions and eight mechanized divisions with 1,600 battle tanks, including first-line U.S. M1A1s--into the Sinai peninsula to threaten the Israeli frontier. Compelling the Israelis to mobilize their own army, which would...
BRITAIN Out of the Bubble Eight months ago Rhys Evans was on the verge of death. Born without a gene vital to the development of an immune system, a condition called severe combined immuno-deficiency disorder, he survived a series of infections thanks to antibiotics and intensive care. Doctors at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children decided to test a therapy previously used only in France. They treated stem cells taken from Rhys' defective bone marrow with the gene needed to create immune cells, which was carried by a harmless retrovirus. Now 18 months old, Rhys is leading...