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STILL A CONTENDER: Rashid Khalidi has not landed the newly endowed chair in contemporary Middle East studies at Princeton University, for which he was a candidate last spring. But the controversial professor still has a shot at working there.

Mr. Khalidi, 57, is the only candidate Princeton officials are considering for a chair in modern and contemporary history, says Jeremy I. Adelman, chairman of the university's history department. The administration "requested we consider him for

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