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...African-American community has heard enough of the "gloom and doom" prophecies of life after affirmative action, said Abigail Thernstrom who, along with her husband, Winthrop Professor of History Stephan A. Thernstrom, co-authored America in Black and White: One Nation Indivisible...
Andrea E. Johnson '98-'99, an environmental science and public policy concentrator, and Abigail R. Branch '98, a social studies concentrator, live in Quincy House. Their column appears on alternate Wednesdays...
...question voiced in the most recent Radcliffe Quarterly, which features a discussion on race at Harvard-Radcliffe. The panelists included author Abigail Thernstrom, who feels that blacks, and liberals in general, are entirely too pessimistic about the issue of race in America. She argues that statistics on the progress of blacks prove that the "we still have a long ways to go" attitude is unfounded. Things have changed, and in a few years, with blacks being educated at higher levels and in greater numbers, this will be even more evident than it already is. According to her, there aren...
...first night in the White House in 1800, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail, "May none but honest and wise men rule under this roof." Adams notably did not include an exception for dishonest, reckless behavior in the President's private life. The media's interest in this story is entirely appropriate given the seriousness of the charges and the potential consequences for the presidency and the nation...
Quincy House: Abigail R. Branch, social studies; Supinda Bunyavanich, environmental science and public policy; Angeline Y. Chong, biology; Ryan H. Dougherty, biochemical sciences; Fotini V. Katopodes, engineering sciences; Peter Y. Lee, history and science; Nishit Saran, visual and environmental studies; Jason W. Veysey, government...