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Delaney-Smith will receive the 15th annual Eckman Award on April 2 at the WBCA National Convention, which will be held in Philadelphia in conjunction with the NCAA women's Final Four...
Actor Matt Damon, Class of 1992, will return to Harvard this Saturday to be honored as the Cultural Artist of the Year at the 15th annual Cultural Rhythms performance festival, Harvard officials confirmed last night...
...people believe racism still exists - and that the legacy of discrimination has not been erased." Many Floridians also wonder whether the 20 percent rule will be entirely fair. "The person in the 25th percentile at a better high school is a better candidate than the kid at the 15th percentile of a not-so-good school," says Cohen. And so the battle rages on: The intricacies of the affirmative action issue - which ignites deep-seated passions about race, gender and socioeconomics - ensure that even if Bush's plan passes next week's review by the independently elected state cabinet, this...
...occupying English forces; the Turkish ruler who conquered Constantinople and enlarged what would become the millennium's most durable empire; the Italian navigator who sailed the ocean blue in 1492. Joan of Arc, Sultan Mehmet II and Christopher Columbus indisputably made lasting history. But it was one of their 15th century contemporaries who created a revolutionary way to spread not only their names and deeds but the sum total of human knowledge around the globe...
...then there is the problem of impact. Which matters more, a life lost or a life changed forever? How many divisions does the Pope have, Stalin asked. Yet an idea that changes lives can have more power than an army that takes them--which leaves Gutenberg presiding over the 15th century, Jefferson over the 18th. Making body counts the ultimate measure of influence precludes the possibility of heroic sacrifice, a single death that inspires countless others to live their lives differently, a young man in front of a column of tanks near Tiananmen Square. "Five hundred years from...