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...Paul Martin's humiliating defeat at the hands of Conservative leader Stephen Harper. For one thing, it would be impossible for opponents to place Ignatieff anywhere near the sponsorship scandal since he had been living abroad, in the United Kingdom and the U.S., since 1978. As well, Ignatieff's background - son of one of Canada's most renowned diplomats, a Russian aristocratic ancestry and a five-year term as director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy - was impeccable...
...diverse faculty can also contribute to the study of diversity, Orfield said. While he noted that race did not necessarily determine a faculty member’s interest in studying civil rights, “people who come from an African American, Latino, or Native American background have distinctive perspective and raise issues that other faculty don’t as well...
...fluidity.A photograph of four boys playing in long, dry grasses is even more striking. This photograph—characteristic of Rockefeller’s best images—combines compositional creativity and an emotional congruence with the subject, while forgoing the pretensions of photojournalism. The grass becomes an abstract background on which the boys float, frolicking with a disarming intensity. There is very little visual context in the photograph, but it is this abandonment of documentary principles that makes it so appealing. The spatter and strew of the grasses is absorbing and positively disorienting, a visual compliment to the boys?...
...train where the two first meet, Bond observes that Vesper’s “beauty is a problem” and that she “overcompensates by wearing slightly masculine clothing.” She counters with a postulation about Bond’s lower-class background, and finishes with the aforementioned remark about the shallow nature of his sexual proclivities. Is this Fleming, or Freudian Analysis...
...There’s been a lot of progress. We’ve gone from 14 percent of the class to 24 percent of the class from disadvantaged backgrounds, and that’s a big jump. It’s no longer the case as it was in my era,” Fitzsimmons says, referencing his own experience as a Harvard undergraduate. “I was one of those students,” he says, “I had no college in my background, we had no money. I will certainly confess that Harvard...