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...hearing, instead of citing the Fifth Amendment as he had before the Velde committee, Kamin refused to name names based on his “conscience.” Furry, too, abandoned the Fifth. “After this hearing at least one member of the Corporation voiced his concern that if the press learned that I received a Harvard degree after defying the McCarthy Committee, Harvard would suffer grave embarrassment,” Kamin wrote.In August 1954, the Senate voted contempt citations against both men, and in December a federal grand jury indicted them.In April 1955, Judge Bailey Aldrich...
...Matory took issue with the idea that critics of Israel were not motivated by a concern for human rights...
...roundtable had taken place because it was “the first time enrollment decline has ever been its own agenda item in at least five years.” Richard Harding, Jr., a second-term school committee member, disputed this, saying that all the committee members had been concerned with the issue but that they had other chief priorities in the past. “It’s not like Patty came along and we suddenly started noticing the enrollment decline,” Harding said. “We were all aware of it, but my concern...
...more effective chain of thought - isn't that called editing? If universal electronic access to books mean that readers will now tackle the editing themselves, Mr. Updike, in his century spanning career - comprising, by my casual estimate, perhaps 20,000-bound-between-covers-pages - could have cause for concern...
...cover story on the fragile state of the Lascaux cave caused readers to wonder anew at the treasures in southwestern France, and to worry over the threats posed both by natural damage and by the French authorities, who at times have seemed most concerned with protecting themselves Thank you for shining a worldwide light on the crisis in Lascaux, France [May 15]. Clearly the cave and its irreplaceable paintings are still at grave risk. The French government must end its secretive handling of the cave, the crisis and attempted treatments. A truly international, independent group of scientists and experts...