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...World Boxing Council title he has held for four years. This is a record that might be associated with a puncher, but Holmes is a boxer. In the opinion of Ray Arcel, 82, the dappled sage in Holmes' corner, "there hasn't been a real puncher since Jersey Joe Walcott, who could hit you on top of the head and knock you out." The heavyweight champions Arcel is ignoring include Rocky Marciano, Ingemar Johansson, Sonny Listen, Joe Frazier and George Foreman. Of recent challengers, Earnie Shavers possessed the closest thing to the big bat. Holmes whipped Shavers twice...
Like many prominent poets and playwrights, West Indies-born Derek Walcott, 52, is much in demand as a college lecturer and teacher. And, as may befit a writer, he has a teaching style that, by his own description, can seem "deliberately personal and intense." But for one Harvard University freshman coed, it was more than that. The young woman, who took a poetry workshop that Walcott taught as a visiting professor last semester, has made an official complaint to the university accusing him of sexual harassment...
While praising Rosovsky for what he did, the freshman who made the complaint who has asked not to be identified objected to the reference to her own behavior stating that there was nothing unusual in her behavior to wards Walcott the student said. Harvard has not treated me as a victim of sexual harassment they have treated me as the accuser of a famous poet and of a Harvard professor...
...Walcott has declined to comment on the case...
...complaint against Walcott alleges that in a discussion of the student's poetry, the professor suddenly said that he did not want to discuss poetry and began to discuss sex, asking the students, "Would you make love with me?" The student declined Walcott's advances and seportedly received the only C in the class. Walcott has acknowledged that the student described has conduct accurately, according to a letter to the freshman from assistant dean of the college, Martyn M. Lewis...