Hunger Strike-Out

MIT professor ends his protest without winning tenure

Twelve days after first taking action on a vow that he would "die defiantly" of starvation if his university did not grant him tenure, James L. Sherley, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, ended his hunger strike.

"I am ending this part of my struggle," said Mr. Sherley in a written statement posted on the university's Web site. Mr. Sherley, an associate professor of biological engineering, has said his tenure

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