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Stating that “business cannot proceed as usual” in the wake of last month’s vote, Matory called on Summers and the Harvard Corporation to respond directly to faculty complaints of restrictions on their free speech...
Friends! Do you wake up dead each morning because you watched another of those old-fashioned westerns on the late show? Have you stayed up past midnight to see High Noon ? Did you miss the bus to work because you caught Stagecoach at 3 a.m.? Well, suffer from horse-opera hangover no more! Now there's Silverado, the Cuisinart western! Silverado dices, splices, chops, co-opts, hones and clones every oater archetype in just 2 hr. 13 min.; that's less than 1% of the time it would take you to sit through the collected works of John Wayne...
Botha's crackdown, however, suggests that those demands will not be met anytime soon. Indeed, if history is an accurate guide, South Africa's blacks may be in for tough tunes. In 1960 and 1977, in the wake of the Sharpeville and Soweto uprisings, the government halted the orgy of violence by arresting antiapartheid leaders and outlawing most opposition organizations. In both instances, the silencing of black leaders ended the crisis. Whether the new crackdown will have a similar effect remains to be seen. Last week the Financial Mail, a Johannesburg newsweekly, ran a cover story titled "The Townships...
...covered with ash. I saw a living baby clinging to the breasts of its dead mother. I saw another child of three or four beating her dead mother with her fists. Perhaps she did not know that her mother was dead and in desperation and confusion was trying to wake...
Thirty years ago, when Harvard last undertook such a review, the Core was born, and the previous review, in the wake of the Second World War, produced the foundational document on the idea of general education...