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Neuharth is perhaps the highest-paid newspaper executive in the country ($1,160,000 in salary, benefits and stock options last year) and is currently finishing his second one-year term as president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association. He has used his ANPA position to exhort fellow journalists to defend the beleaguered First Amendment and to hire more women and minorities. These are heartfelt concerns, but Neuharth's passionate pursuit of them is constantly put to use in his crusade to recast Gannett's image. The company trumpets its commitment to journalistic freedom and excellence in expensive...
...highest praise he can muster for tennis only underscores his preference for baseball: "Tennis is like taking batting practice all day. Instead of getting up four times, you get up a thousand...
...read the report in Tuesday's Crimson on the rejection of Professor Eugene Genovese's candidacy for a professorship in Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department. This incredible decision can have no basis other than ideological and personal, for it happens that Professor Genovese stands among the very highest ranks of American historians who study Afro-American life and history...
Professor Huggins, who recently gave the highest praise and evaluation to Professor Genovese's new book From Rebellion to Revolution (see The New Republic, Jan. 19, 1980), must know that the future intellectual reputation of the reorganized Afro-American Studies Department will be fundamentally harmed if the decision on Professor Genovese is allowed to stand. It is important that Professor Higgins' position on this matter be made clear to scholars in the Afro-American field, that he disassociate himself from this incredible decision, and I urge him to come forth. Professor Genovese's presence in Afro-American Studies at Harvard...
Early in the 20th century, Japan and Russia stood at approximately the same stage of economic development. Japan went the capitalist route and acquired Asia's highest living standard. Russia went the Communist path and has never produced consumer goods of quality or sufficient agricultural output...