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Harvard has long numbered distinguished Africanists among its faculty. When a graduate student in the 1960s, I took courses from Martin Kilson, Rupert Emerson and Robert Rotberg (I mention only political scientists). Since that time, the ranks of Harvard's Africanists have deepened dramatically...
...That is what we are doing now. That is what we have done in the past--well before the advent of affirmative action programs in the late 1960s...
Certainly no one has a monopoly on murder and ethnic cleansing in Burundi. As in Rwanda, majority Hutu and minority Tutsi have set upon each other periodically since the two countries gained independence from Belgium in the early 1960s. Neither group has shown much tolerance for the political ambitions of the other. Burundi's current crisis began in 1993, when Tutsi soldiers assassinated Melchior Ndadaye, a Hutu and the country's first democratically elected President, after he threatened to bring an end to 30 years of Tutsi domination. The killing triggered an orgy of revenge; some 50,000 Burundians died...
...sweeps a circular swath through the heavens, elevated at a slightly different fixed angle from the horizon with each successive turn. During each circuit it captures radio waves reaching Earth at frequencies between 1400 and 1720 megahertz--a broad but relatively "quiet" region of the radio spectrum. "In the 1960s we were looking in a few niches and hoping the extraterrestrials had put their jewels there," says astronomer Frank Drake, who launched the first SETI project in 1960. "They didn't. Now we are doing it right...
...dean wanted to enhance the diversity of student and faculty interests, strengthen the education offered to under-graduates and recreate as much as possible the sense of community he believed was lost in the turmoil of the late 1960s...