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...Committee will be disbanded, with control passing to a new director--yet to be named--and the previously less-involved faculty Standing Committee on Middle Eastern Studies. In his report, Spence calls the Executive Committee a "divided body" and says that "as currently constituted" it "cannot serve a useful function." Three members of the body called publicly for Safran's resignation after the October conference, an action that Spence says "deeply offended" at least one other committee member...
Spence, calling the executive committee "a divided body," states that as currently constituted it can no longer serve a "useful function." Spence states that the three members who in October called for Safran's resignation did so without consulting their colleagues and before a review had been launched...
Others connected the presence of obscure courses with Harvard's function as a university. "The field has to be covered, knowledge has to be preserved and added to, and if you don't keep up with it you're outstripped....because the world is shrinking so fast it is incumbent upon a great university to be aware of what is going on in the world. Like Vietnam. Suddenly the U.S. was in a war with Vietnam, and we didn't know anything about it," Frye says...
...past 7 1/2 years I have used this space to tell you about the people behind the stories. I hoped to convey the excitement and dedication that have made TIME the pre-eminent magazine in the world. This page will continue to serve that function, but next week's issue will carry the signature of TIME's tenth and newest publisher: Richard B. Thomas...
...Benares, India, is the brainchild of Harvard film professor Robert Gardner, considered by many to be the most important anthropological filmmakers of our time. The documentary has no subtitles, no musical soundtrack, no voice-over commentary--only the insistent din of a city at work, a city whose main function concerns the burial of the dead...