Word: bhabha
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...inside the system, FAS allows itself to search freely for those best fit to fill gaps in the curriculum. Harvard is willing to go to great lengths to claim great minds, and some of the University’s most prized luminaries—including Stephen Pinker, Homi Bhabha, and Stephen Greenblatt—have entered the gates through this process...
...committee’s agenda for the year, the event served to introduce this year’s resident “Scholars at Risk.” These academics, forced to flee their home countries as political refugees, are provided with temporary positions in the University. Jacqueline Bhabha, executive director of the committee, who introduced the scholars, described the program as an “act of academic solidarity” and “a practical contribution to academic freedom...
...Jacqueline Bhabha, Executive Director of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies, says she supports Harvard’s policy of granting alumni equal reunion and directory privileges, but thinks Harvard should “protect the integrity of the institution” by exercising discretion when accepting gifts...
...think accepting a gift associates you with the giftor,” Bhabha says. “It enables the giftor to say they made the gift to you—it makes an association that could color the independence of the work...
...nothing more than slaves. “You destroy a people if you treat them with disdain,” Soyinka said. The speech at the Center for Government and International Studies drew a full house and was followed by a question-and-answer session with Soyinka. Jacqueline Bhabha, executive director of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies, called the speech “brilliant.” “He did an excellent job of contextualizing the problem within a broader context,” Bhabha said. Soyinka, who won the Nobel Prize in 1986, is primarily...