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When West, who left for Princeton in 2002 after a bitter dispute with University President Lawrence H. Summers, taught Afro-American Studies 10, “Intro to Afro-American Studies,” he attracted hundreds of students who packed into Harvard’s most cavernous lecture halls to hear him lecture...
...tide of Harvard’s fortune had appeared to reach its ebb after the first period at the Whale. This was not a new situation for the Harvard men’s hockey team; on a number of occasions this season, the team has found itself on the bitter side of a box score, the result of mental lapses and third-period collapses. But this rainy Friday in New Haven was not such an occasion...
...Jacobs finally escaped to the North. "Sweet and bitter," she wrote, "were mixed in the cup of my life, and I was thankful that it had ceased to be entirely bitter." Though few slaves were literate, as a child she had served a sympathetic woman who had tutored her. Jacobs wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl during hours snatched from her duties as a domestic. It became a success on both sides of the Atlantic, and then, according to Yellin, whose book continues where Jacobs' ends, the ex-slave's work really began. Jacobs worked with black...
...measured it at 7.1 on the Richter scale, higher than the initial temblor, which left more than two dozen dead. Let the People Decide SRI LANKA President Chandrika Kumaratunga dissolved the country's Parliament - paving the way for snap elections on April 2 - in a bid to win a bitter power struggle with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, majority leader of the 225-member legislature. Kumaratunga's ongoing feud with the Prime Minister has stalled peace talks with rebel Tamil Tigers. Pitched Battle HAITI At least three policemen were killed in street fighting as police special forces swept into Gonaives, Haiti...
This is my bitter story about how Hollywood screwed up my brilliant idea. Only it wasn't even Hollywood. It was VH1. It's really more a story about how four guys MTV was trying to get rid of screwed up my idea...