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Each student had three writing assignments during the workshop: a song about passion, a duet involving conflict and a free team-made composition. From these three fairly simple challenges came a wide breadth of style and creativity...
Second, the Court could reject Bakke and hold that promoting diversity is not a compelling interest. None of the Michigan policies would be constitutional in this scenario. And, depending on the breadth of the Court’s reasoning, other types of affirmative action policies, such as voluntary desegregation in K-12 education or affirmative action in government employment, could also be placed at risk. Prior Supreme Court cases hold that an institution’s goal of remedying the effects of its own discrimination is a compelling interest; if the Court goes so far as to rule that...
...Nineveh! He beamed with delight, "Assurbanipal," and we shook hands again as if King Assurbanipal (who died in 627 B.C.) was a close mutual friend. I never found out why he was so enthusiastic about the late king, as his knowledge of English did not allow for that breadth of discussion, but the mention of Nineveh had an immediate impact on my working...
HELEN VENDLER. Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney has named her “the best close reader of poems to be found on the literary pages.” Hard to match for her attention to nuance and breadth of knowledge, Porter University Professor Helen Vendler will read from her most recent work of criticism, Coming of Age as a Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath—a study of four poets’ first “perfect,” or mature, poems. Friday, April 4, at 3 p.m. Free. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue...
...enduring legacy for us on this campus will be his service to his Kind—the kind who grew up with him in Hell’s Kitchen and every other poor neighborhood across America. From Social Security, to medical care, to public transportation, to labor issues, the breadth and depth of his commitment to “promote the general welfare’’ was unparalleled in modern politics...