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Historical controversy arises once again with the advent of author and historian Gary Wills, here to talk about his new bestseller Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power. Wills explores an aspect of Jefferson’s presidency that is often glossed over: the idea that Jefferson actually achieved his presidency by maintaining the institution of “slave representation.” This event is part of the Harvard Book Store’s November Presidential Series, featuring talks with luminaries such as David Herbert Donald, Harry Wiencek and Gore Vidal. 6 p.m. Free. First Parish Church, Three...
...problem with the argument, of course, is that the clips were not only conceived primarily as a marketing tool (widely dubbed “promos” before the advent of MTV), but serve as vehicles to showcase the existing work of other artists. Even the video of a talented filmmaker raises questions of how much artistic control belonged to the director behind the camera, the musician in front of it and the record company bankrolling the effort. When the production ultimately boils down to carving out an image for the involved performer, there seems to be little room...
...magazines, not just porn magazines, are down in circulation because of the advent of the Internet. If you can download a magazine in the privacy of your home, it’s hard to convince somebody to go to a newsstand and buy it, especially...
...point system is founded in the logic that race can be quantified, which it cannot, and the system’s advent into our nation’s colleges has been marked by outright discrimination. Rather than ask what an individual student’s ethnicity will contribute to campus—as the Harvard and the University of Michigan Law School systems do—it merely assigns points based on the color of a person’s skin...
...away from the academic experience, with students finding more time for MTV and less time for Moral Reasoning. But for some reason, the other seven of the Ancient Eight have somehow found a way to persevere through the burden of cable television, and continue to succeed academically. With the advent of new technology, the possibilities for gaining access to cable have become much stronger. And this can happen much sooner than many would think. I urge the administration to make a firm commitment to implementing cable television by fall 2004. While seemingly ambitious, this time frame would be an easily...