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...Matthew T. Kishlansky '00 knew that being a `faculty brat' at Harvard would carry certain stigmas, not the least of which being that his dad would gibe him publicly, given the opportunity. "I made fun of my parents at my high school graduation and I've been doing time ever since," Matt says. But his father's witticisms aren't a form of revenge--he didn't even remember the graduation speech. "I would do it anyway," the professor quips. "He can take...
...when it came to writing, certain tensions arose. "He discovered much to his dismay that I know how to write and he didn't," Professor Kishlansky says. "I write for a living. Of course I should be better than a high school student. At first Matt denied it, but ultimately he figured out it was to his advantage...to learn from me," Kishlansky wryly reminisces...
...seems as if she pushed this all down, papered it over," Ireland said. "We have a got a president who, if he looked right in our eyes or in a camera and said, `I did not have sex with this woman and didn't rape her either,' there's certain credibility...
...thing that is certain as clubs close their doors is that the College has no plans to initiate its own formal response anytime soon...
This diversity does not delegitimize Hanukkah or Kwanzaa, nor does Kwanzaa's relative newness. No one, including "would-be wise man" Maulana Karenga, is insisting that all black Americans exist in the same social spaces. Kwanzaa is about certain core values and norms and very little about Africa. We hope anyone who comments on Kwanzaa has thoroughly researched the rituals involved therein. They will find that they have no basis in any actual African practices or religion...