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Anthropology and African-American studies professor J. Lorand Matory ’82 thinks so. At a recent Faculty meeting, he proposed that Harvard reaffirm “civil dialogue,” arguing that critics of Israel “tremble in fear” on campus...
Last Tuesday, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted to table free speech. At least, that’s what anthropology and African-American studies professor J. Lorand Matory ’82 would have you believe. Matory, who has previously complained about academia’s pro-Israel bias, introduced a motion at last week’s Faculty meeting calling on FAS to reaffirm its commitment to free speech and tolerance of minority views. The Faculty, however, seeing through Matory’s ploy, decided to table the resolution (a sufficient quorum was not present to defeat...
...strike initiated by Columbia undergraduates, which ended on Friday night, was misguided in its methods, if not its professed aims. Seven students and one professor participated in the strike which, according to their blog, came about in response to the appearance of a noose on the door of an African-American Columbia professor, the University’s plan to expand into East Harlem and the ongoing racial controversy in Jena, La. The strike called for “a more systematic response to hate crimes from Public Safety, a more collaborative expansion effort from the administration, a revision...
...Over the next few years the two grew closer. Kerik and Giuliani were literally inseparable on 9/11 and in the months that followed. Crime declined on Kerik's watch, though the big drop had taken place years before. After years of mutual hostility, City Hall's relations with local African-American leaders slowly began to heal. Kerik's press was good, but unlike Bratton, Kerik took care to stay in Giuliani's shadow when it mattered. By the time Kerik stepped down in 2002, Giuliani was the godfather to two of Kerik's kids. The two men then took their...
...Trinity Broadcasting Network, airs several of the more popular Charismatic televangelists. But Grady suspects TBN's Praise the Lord talk/variety program will probably forgo candidate appearances: not only because the religious right is split on which horse to back, but because a significant proportion of TBN's viewers are African-American Pentecostals, some of whom favor Barack Obama. The most influential evangelical radio show is Dr. James Dobson's Focus on the Family, but Dobson has not endorsed Huckabee...