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Furthermore, the assertion that "the students haven't done much until now" displays the editorial board's ignorance of the fact that minority student leaders have been meeting regularly and have exchanged letters with Dean Knowles requesting information about the minority faculty hiring process and the Visiting Scholars Program. The...
The protesters should, if anything, be pleased with certain recent events. After all, Harvard has made progress on ethnic studies offerings. And the University's success over the last year in hiring several highly acclaimed scholars who happen to be minorities--including Princeton Professor Corneal R. West '74, one of...
Every few years it seems we are forcefully reminded of how the academy and the liberal state are tied together inextricably and that any radical attempt to change the former threatens the very existence of the latter. This, in short, is the subject of the eminent historian Gertrude Himmelfarb's...
"Neither a borrower nor a Spender be" is the message American novelist David Leavitt got from his publisher, Viking, last week. No more copies of Leavitt's controversial novel, While England Sleeps, will be printed or shipped until the author has made "minor revisions," said a Viking spokesperson. The move...
Although it costs as much as a bottle of Perrier-Jouet brut, many wine lovers will consider the new (third) edition of Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide (Simon & Schuster; $40) an indispensable purchase. The nation's pre-eminent guru of grape, Robert M. Parker Jr., is writer-publisher of...