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...nobody should believe that one day's boycott will be enough to diversify the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Even President Derek C. Bok could not just snap his fingers and diversify the Faculty. Minority and women scholars first must accept tenure offers. The recent tenure rejections of Nellie Y. McKay, Albert J. Raboteau and Cornell R. West '74 demonstrate that Harvard must make itself more desirable to outside scholars before they will come. In the meantime, the administration should be praised for its recent efforts to revitalize Afro-American Studies through joint tenure offers. We encourage the administration...
...process known as stereopsis an artificial three-dimensional space that seems to jut out from the screen. As an object in that space approaches the viewer, it becomes larger and larger. If it gets big enough to reach the outer edges of the picture, however, it will appear to snap back to the plane of the screen, sending conflicting depth cues to the brain and destroying the 3-D illusion. The advantage of the wraparound Solido theater is that the edges of the screen are beyond the audience's field of view. "The screen seems to disappear in the peripheral...
...People who maybe a year ago would simply have walked away really snap back at panhandlers and homeless people who are acting aggressively," says Robert Kiley, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. "Just in the past four or five weeks, I've seen a couple of near physical confrontations." Peter Harris, the MTA's director of research, says his "eyes kind of bulged" in October as he listened to the complaints of subway riders who participated in a focus group. "One woman said, 'I've spent my whole life in New York, I've grown up on the Upper West...
This immense landmass, so long made immutable and monolithic by rule from the Kremlin, is now quaking under the impact of Gorbachev's reforms. The Soviet republics are beginning to snap the political and economic bonds linking them to the once all-powerful center in Moscow. With the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in the vanguard, some of the imprisoned peoples are battering the outside walls and intend to leap to freedom. It now seems certain that the center cannot hold onto all 15 republics. What was unthinkable only a few months ago has now become reality...
...week after dashing headlong into the Massachusetts gubernatorial race, Boston University's president, John Silber, was asked if he'd gleaned any early lessons from his introduction to politics. Said the former philosophy professor with characteristic snap, crackle and pop: "It advises me to be less interesting, to learn to speak plastic, so that no one has the slightest idea what you're talking about...