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...Great Banana War.” I ducked, and thus ended the weeklong battle: from fresh bananas being hidden in the bed to a physical struggle for control of the banana bag, from the concealment of the bananas in a package as camouflage to a brief “water-being-poured-down-our-door” episode, and the much-maligned campaign, in which the rotten-banana-smeared cardboard left under my bed failed to produce the pungent smell required for the attack to be effective...
...camp for women during the 1950s Mau Mau Revolt, a failed insurgency movement that set the stage for Kenyan independence. But there was no secondary literature. Elkins handed in her thesis and decided that if she ever went back to graduate school, she would investigate these detention camps.Following a brief stint on Wall Street, Elkins arrived in the Yard to begin her graduate studies in history and the search for an untold story.CHASING CHALLENGESWhile most research relies on existing records, Elkins’ project was propelled by gaps in the record.Encountering destroyed files and a government-imposed 50-year silence...
...along, as some claim, then Summers’ presidency will be viewed as an aberration, diverting an institution steeped in tradition from its natural course. Summers will have proved to be unready for Harvard. Should, however, this University continue along the trajectory along which Summers catapulted it in his brief time here, then he will be vindicated as a reformer ahead of his time; Harvard was just not ready for him. We certainly hope the latter will prove to be the case...
...exemption from the nondiscrimination policy this past September, Harvard has continued to fight the Solomon Amendment. Harvard was not a part of FAIR, the consortium of three-dozen law schools that filed suit. But Harvard’s central administration joined six other universities in filing an amicus brief in support of FAIR. Additionally, Kagan and 39 other law professors filed a separate brief arguing that Harvard’s practice of holding all recruiters—military or not—to the same nondiscrimination policy was in compliance with the equal access clause of the Solomon Amendment. Roberts...
...writes in an e-mail. “Just why African American students tend to perform below what prior grades and test scores would predict remains an unsolved problem.”DOUBTING DIVERSITYThe University defended its admissions policies that considered race a factor in an amicus brief it filed with other universities in the 1978 Bakke v. Regents of the University of California and again in the 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger.“The race of an applicant may tip the balance in his favor just as geographic origin or a life spent on a farm...