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Junior faculty. Last December, the University denied tenure to Jeffrey A. Masten, a specialist in queer theory and the history of sexuality. When a popular, highly recommended associate professor like Masten is denied for no obvious reason, the message is clear: research in "marginal" fields like lesbian and gay studies is unwelcome...
DIED. J.T. WALSH, 54, character actor and specialist in obdurate personae; of a heart attack; outside San Diego. Walsh's sense of icy machismo made him perfect for David Mamet's anomic world; the playwright gave Walsh his first big break when he cast him in the 1984 Broadway production of Glengarry Glen Ross. Walsh did not start acting until he was 30, yet he brought his skill to nearly 60 film roles, including a turn as John Ehrlichman in Nixon and recently as a redneck kidnapper in the 1997 thriller Breakdown...
Lawrence Lessig, a specialist in technology and Internet law who joined the Faculty last year, will be the first Berkman Professor...
Record or not, Dr. Michael Vermesh, the proud Tarzana, Calif., fertility specialist who supervised Baby Billy's birth, says such cases will bring new hope to thousands of would-be parents who may not realize they have frozen embryos in storage. Billy's parents, who in 1989 spent $7,000 for the fertilization procedure that resulted in the birth of their first child, were not aware they had created any backup embryos until a lab notified them last year that it was holding three on ice. By then Billy's mother was 44 years old, though the embryos were those...
...Crimson will have its hands full with some of the toughest competition the Ivy League has ever produced. This field includes two Olympic finalists, versatile Christina Teuscher from Columbia and Backstroke specialist Nikki Dryden from Brown...