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Brown's tenure at the New Yorker has been marked, not unexpectedly, by dramatic personnel changes. She brought a number of writers from the Vanity Fair stable. She also managed to lure prodigals from The New Republic: a former senior editor, Sidney Blumenthal, and the former editor Hendrik Hertzberg. Hertzberg, it is widely acknowledged, writes the unsigned Comment and is credited with keeping the magazine firmly on its liberal course...
...years of anti-A.N.C. propaganda, the majority of whites seem ready to live with black rule. Although many talk of leaving, a 1992 survey showed that only 27% of English-speaking and 13% of Afrikaans-speaking whites contemplate emigration. Some, like Wilhelm Verwoerd, 29, grandson of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid and head of the government that locked up Nelson Mandela, have decided that what they cannot fight they should join. Last month Verwoerd stood on an A.N.C. platform in Parow, a conservative suburb of Cape Town, and confessed his political conversion to fellow Afrikaners...
...Professor of Economics Hendrik S. Houthakker said the vote could be seen as a "slap in the face" for Powell and said it "opens up a new area of discrimination, namely against those students who take part in ROTC." He also tried, and failed, to table the report...
...symbolic gesture strengthening the University's position on the ban, a vote on the ROTC committee's report will likely not be without friction. The topic of Powell's invitation itself was a subject of some debate in the Faculty two weeks ago, with Lee Professor of Economics Hendrik S. Houthakker supporting the choice...
...Professor of Economics Hendrik S. Houthakker said the choice of Powell "pleased...