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Such mix-and-match ideas are anathema to the likes of the University of Chicago's Allan Bloom, best-selling author of The Closing of the American Mind, who loudly deplores the blending of noble old wheat with trendy chaff. Stephen Balch, president of the National Association of Scholars, criticizes the broadening of core lists as a form of "intellectual affirmative action" rather than a fresh infusion of literary blood. Balch complains that revisionists "have designed a project to alter the nature of civilization itself...
Harvard attorney Allan A. Ryan said he would appeal the jury's decision, claiming that "the evidence simply doesn't support" the jury's verdict...
...have won five-sixths of the case," Harvard attorney Allan A. Ryan, Jr., said yesterday. "The judge ruled unequivocably that Harvard had not discriminated against Charlotte Walters...
Thursday, 15--University of Chicago professor Allan Bloom today announced that he was taking back all the criticism of contemporary American society that he levelled in his unexpected blockbuster book The Closing of the American Mind. "What can I say?" he said in an announcement addressed to the American people. "I was drinking a lot back then, my significant other was giving me a hard time and my stomach was acting up. I was in a pretty bad mood and I took it out on you all. I'm really sorry. Really...
Harvard also suffers in another area--lack of experience. The Crimson is hurting for experience in the 400-meter hurdles, partly because of Don Lavigne's absence. Lavigne is on leave after competing on the U.S. bobsled team at the Olympic Games in Calgary. Freshman Allan Andrews will take Lavigne's place in this event...