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...West left Harvard after a bitter public dispute with Summers. That same year, Carswell Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah also joined him at Princeton, citing personal reasons...
...point during the 1960s, an Afro cream producer acquires the rights to the character and begins to produce a black Escapist, although the gig doesn?...
...purchases of Allston land and took upon himself the prickly job of making those purchases public. He was an adamant, if courteous, supporter of affirmative-action, and his interest in the vital problem of race in America inspired him to build the nation’s finest department of Afro-American studies. And he was, by all accounts, passionately devoted to maintaining the high quality of the Harvard professoriat...
Unlike with the recording of the band’s 2003 debut De-Loused in the Comatorium or any output from At The Drive-In (the El Paso afro-toting prog-punk powerhouse he and crooner Cedric Bixler, the other permanent ‘Marsvoltian’, led until 2001) the drug policy with this record was to wait until after the recording to start the debauchery. The good news, for those who have warmed to the histrionic, full-blown theatrics of the Mars Volta, is that the sober influence is not felt...
...Chicago’s Kalven Report, be a home of critics, rather than a critic itself. Perhaps, when a president speaks on politics—even off-the-record, and in a personal capacity—that barrier is crossed. Yet whether the subject is women in science, Afro-American studies, or Paulin, Summers’ comments have been subject to withering criticism from faculty and students alike. What intelligent person could read the papers and conclude that all of Harvard thinks as he does, or that its Faculty feels any pressure to agree? It is possible that Summers?...