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...face that challenge and actually finally eradicate slavery—which I think is something we can do in a generation—it takes leaders,” said E. Benjamin Skinner, a Carr Center fellow and another research adviser. “And what better place to train leaders than Harvard University...
...financial security of those on the list suggests otherwise. But if it is the case that these students are a financial asset to the College, than they are as equally qualified as athletes, actors, and the myriad other students with talents who are recruited to make Harvard a better place. Indeed, the student Z-listed to please a long line of donors and College supporters may be responsible for the financial aid that allows 70 percent of his or her classmates to attend...
...loves this Institute, he loves this University, and he knows our students and the careers they’re thinking about better than anyone else,” Purcell said...
Though she admits she might have been a “creep as a little girl,” Hale says that these clandestine activities allowed her to better understand people—an important skill for any writer, she adds...
...this end, the extreme emotions that surround child criminals should not be allowed to impact legal proceedings further. The vengeful desires to know Venables’s crime and identity are unjustified; whether better or worse, the post-adolescent Venables is not the same 10-year-old who was tried 17 years ago. We may have had a right to know Venables’s crime then, but the public no longer has the right to know the details of the rest of his life. Venables’s identity is veiled in order to protect his life, and there...