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...kickoff event last Thursday was less intuitive in its choice of pairing Harvest restaurant with the Joan Crawford film noir flick Mildred Pierce. True, the film centers on an obsessive restauranteur, but why Harvest? The tony bastion of Cambridge establishment eateries, tastefully done up in autumnal heather and beige and careful New American cuisine—and manic mother-daughter competition circa...
...these schools, none can claim to have transcended class lines especially by the Pell Grant numbers. Harvard, in particular, for all its talk of income diversity, remains a bastion of wealth...
...Western civilization is wrought with intolerance and oppression: expansive and imperialist supremacy efforts by Western nations—such as the Crusades, the Inquisition and 19th century colonialism—killed and oppressed millions in various countries in the world. Even the United States, prized by many as the bastion of liberty and equality, is no mere bystander of intolerant and repressive action. Many of America’s founders who espoused that “All men are created equal,” owned slaves in their own households; even modern United States history reveals subjugation of women...
Harvard students may be rolling in it, but is that Harvard’s fault? Some argue that social forces beyond the University’s control prevent Harvard from being anything but a bastion of wealth. But if that is true, then how do other highly selective colleges manage to attract more diverse student bodies? When they do that, do they sacrifice academic excellence? And on the other side of the spectrum, do some schools sacrifice economic diversity by admitting a large chunk of their class early, aiming for higher yields but in effect shutting out the relatively poorer...
...Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the Gulf emirates and pre-revolutionary Iran, and military autocrats in Egypt, Algeria and (looking further east) Pakistan is that it prefers governments that will do Washington's bidding over the bidding of their own citizens. During the Cold War, these governments served as a bastion against leftist and nationalist currents hostile to Washington and also as guarantors of a smooth flow of oil to the West. Today, it is the war on terrorism that functions to excuse the authoritarianism of many of Washington's allies in Arab and Muslim lands...