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Heralding a new image for the nation's oldest university, some departments point to their new non-Harvard-trained faculty as a sign of changing values among scholars here. Outside scholars have for some time criticized Harvard for its tendency to hire its own former students--a practice some say leads to a kind of "inbreeding" of ideas and reluctance to explore less-charted fields...
Bush's predecessors have wagged their fingers at Israel over the issue of building settlements in the occupied territories. But the Bush Administration went much further last week, not by using stronger language but by breaking one of the oldest taboos in Washington's patron relationship with Jerusalem; it used money as a cudgel. After two fruitless days in Jerusalem, Secretary of State James Baker made clear that Washington did not intend to grant Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir the full $10 billion in loan guarantees he has requested to help accommodate an expected 1 million Soviet Jewish emigres. More important...
...oldest art history departments in America, Fine Arts was left short-handed when a large number of professors retired. The department lost five major figures over the course of three years, including Kingsley Professor of Fine Arts James S. Ackerman and Rockefeller Professor of Oriental Art John M. Rosenfield...
...extradition negotiations dragged on for more than a year. During that time, Strachan was the oldest inmate in the Tombs. He used his $5 weekly earnings to buy Spanish newspapers for other inmates, who called him "Pops." Strachan's lawyers, William Kunstler and Ron Kuby, fought the case through the courts. "We took the position that in light of the fact that 45 years had gone by, during which Leroy lived openly and publicly, he wasn't a fugitive," says Kuby. Finally last week, Florida officials agreed to a deal: Strachan would plead down to manslaughter, in exchange...
...second largest U.S. banking company after Manhattan's Citicorp. In a similar transaction, Chemical Banking is exchanging $2.3 billion of its shares for the stock of New York City neighbor Manufacturers Hanover. "Debt has become a bad four-letter word," says Benjamin Griswold, chairman of Alex. Brown & Sons, the oldest U.S. investment banking firm...