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...point missed by many such concerned commentators is that Obama cannot, and should not, be a “black president” any more than he should be a white one. A multiracial nation demands a colorblind president—one willing to fairly address the plight and concerns of every citizen...
...full meal plan. But general tuition freezes are not the best choice to help students who have the greatest need of financial relief. Tuition, after all, is fundamentally a market price paid by students who can afford it, while financial aid programs cover, as much as possible, students who cannot afford full tuition—and who still sometimes receive aid that is meager or insufficient, even at schools with the most generous financial aid programs. Allocating extra funds to a tuition freeze instead of financial aid will generally benefit students paying the full tuition price more than those...
...even the most privileged among us cannot escape the realities facing black communities worldwide: AIDS in Botswana and Baltimore, huge incarceration rates of black males in America, or depressed economies and failed governments in Haiti. Each of these issues sparks dialogue and debate, forcing us to consider our responsibility as the black intellectual elite to help solve these problems. Notions of W.E.B. DuBois’ “talented tenth” persist, and every academic year starts with a prerequisite discussion of our great obligation as black Harvard students to effect change...
...protest, the opposition parties have begun to boycott budget sessions in the Diet legislature. "We cannot accept that the ministry that deals with grave social issues like decreasing population is headed by someone who has demonstrated a complete lack of respect for the people," says Yoshiaki Takaki, head of the Diet policy committee for the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan...
...Japan's TBS television broadcast footage of a man believed to be Kim Jong Nam walking to a cab. He was wearing a powder blue sport coat and pink shirt, and drinking a green beverage from a bottle. "Are you staying at the Mandarin hotel?" the reporter asked. "I cannot tell you," the man replied. "My privacy...