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Nearly five decades ago, when one of her teachers called her to the front of her Atlanta public-school classroom, Evelynn M. Hammonds—the first black woman to serve as Dean of Harvard College—thought she would be recognized for an ‘A’ she had recently earned on a test...
...She’s exceptionally bright,” Kidd adds. “And to be a smart black woman being bused in Atlanta? Well, when her back is up against the wall, she shows people how tough...
...department since the mid-1980s, and he attributes the rarity of these incidents in recent years to a shift in societal norms.“Its a lot like the civil rights revolution--once its all over, you think how could people have tolerated having separate drinking fountains for black and white people? How could anybody have allowed a situation where women who were students would be exploited by older men?” said Putnam.But Marine and Rankin also emphasize that many students may still experience harassment but not come forward. According to Rankin students may be afraid...
...these models works well in its own domain, but each also proclaims that the other is defective. Melding the warring antagonists is essential to gaining insight into other great mysteries—what happened at the big bang, the true fate of matter crushed at the center of a black hole, even the nature of time. I began working on string theory—one of the most promising approaches—25 years ago, as a young graduate student hungry to make a mark on the physics world. It was an exhilarating period leading some to proclaim naively that...
...cards together and deal them out into new piles, but imagine that cards with similar affinities will gravitate toward each other. The original suits will exert some pull, but cards of like denominations might also attract one another. Perhaps face cards will form a group, or even red-card black-card societies. If subtle affinities like these are allowed to play a role during the deal, what is the likelihood that you’ll deal out the original suits...