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...curled white wig jerks his head, filling the air with dust as he moves. Bubbles spontaneously appear onstage, and the 14 ballet dancers begin to play with them; a woman pops the one in front of her, another tries to gather them in her arms. In “Black and White,” the U.S. premiere of five ballets choreographed by Jirí Kylián between 1986 and 1991, decorum is literally cast off and left excavated on the stage like a mask behind which no face appears. Variations of an elaborate, rigid 18th century dress appear...
...said they hoped to see greater diversity in the new House Master selection.“We have a president [Barack Obama] who represents the diverse experience of America,” said Alneada D. Biggers ’10, Pfoho resident and president of the Association of Black Harvard Women, before news of the Christakis appointment broke. “It would be nice to have a House Master who represents who I am.”The concerns were brought to a point in an online petition started last week by Blake L. Johnson...
...this has been the case for two years.”Johnson said his petition is timely in light of the selection, announced last Wednesday, of Law School Professor Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. and Law School lecturer Stephanie Robinson as the College’s first black House Masters—picks that reflected comments made by Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds that she would like to foster greater diversity among a group that contains few minority members.Despite that push, Pfoho’s new House Masters will not be minorities. Nicholas A. Christakis, a distinguished professor...
...unclear what Mohammed's precise role will be, or how much leverage he has in Swat. The militant leader emerged as a force in the mid-1990s, when his loyalists, sporting black turbans, seized control of buildings and courthouses before the government of then Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was able to tame the revolt and sign a truce. In late 2001, Mohammed led thousands of young men - including Fazlullah - to Afghanistan to fight the Western forces that had invaded in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Upon their return, Mohammed was arrested and imprisoned. His release last year was contingent...
Last Wednesday, Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds announced in an e-mail to the Winthrop House community that Law School Professor Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. and Law School lecturer Stephanie Robinson will assume the posts as Harvard’s first black House masters next fall...