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...Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. urged Congress last Tuesday to investigate racial inequalities in the nation’s education and justice systems, and said the federal government should pressure states to rectify these inequalities. Speaking in front of the House Judiciary Committee, Ogletree—who is an advisor to the lawyers of the six black students controversially indicted in Jena, La. earlier this year—said that the Jena case highlights larger problems in the American legal and education systems. “Jena’s most important role is in lending drama and immediacy...
...Sylvia Mendenhall is Teacher Emerita at Concord Academy. She was President Faust’s English teacher and advisor in junior year at that institution...
...year. Yesterday’s talk by the only still-living winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was sponsored by the Harvard Book Store and included a question-and-answer session with Richard M. Losick, Cabot professor of biology, and Andrew Berry, life sciences concentrators advisor and research associate of the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology. The epilogue of Watson’s book was recently excerpted in the latest issue of 02138 Magazine. “The epilogue was just to show I was still alive,” he said...
...universities. The timing of tenure review can also be problematic for junior faculty in terms of their personal lives. “For the intellectual vitality of the University, I think it’s very good to recruit young faculty,” says Lisa L. Martin, senior advisor to the dean of FAS. At 34, Martin was one of the youngest women to be offered tenure at Harvard in 1996. “But I think that it does have potentially negative consequences for women in particular because about seven or eight years after women get their Ph.D...
...stampede. The police, protected by helmets, body armor and shields, kept up the barrage of stones and gas until they forced the protesters across the street to the grounds of the Supreme Court. Aitzaz Ahsan, a leading Supreme Court lawyer and former Interior Minister, who had served as an advisor to the court on the hearing for Musharraf's candidacy, was directly targeted by the police, as were several other leaders of the protest. Ahsan was hit by a brick in the kidneys at point blank range, then beaten on the head with batons, which shattered his glasses. A colleague...