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...funding ten paintings. Due to Coit’s interest in the project and willingness to charge significantly less than his usual rate, the Foundation might now be able to fund a total of twenty portraits. Foundation Director S. Allen Counter said that the portraits’ subjects are chosen by a committee of two students and three faculty members. In past months, the Portraiture Project has unveiled paintings of L. Fred Jewett ’57 and Archie C. Epps III, both of whom were deans at Harvard. —Staff writer Doris H. Hernandez can be reached...
...addition, their tangible achievements aren’t a testament to social progress—it is football, after all. The winners and losers aren’t chosen subjectively—they’re chosen on the field. And as important as the coaches are, they only have so much control over what happens between the hash marks. True, an element of advancement exists in the naming of a black coach in the first place, but those benchmarks have long been passed by Dungy and Smith (in 1996 and 2004, respectively...
...himself in a similar situation. The potential appearance of the first black candidate with a legitimate shot to win on a major party’s ballot is an exciting time for everyone, but Barack Obama should be championed for his personal achievements and not used as a spokesperson chosen to represent the struggle of all blacks in all of history. Granted, I think most would agree that a win from Obama late next year would have slightly more lasting reverberations for us all, but in the context of their individual relationships to the future history of race, the parallel...
...been able to choose the president, I would have chosen Elena, but that comment does not reflect negatively in any way on Drew Faust, whom I genuinely expect to be excellent,” said Fallon, who said he does not know Faust personally...
...Also, we learned that rooting against someone would have been really stupid, because the SciTech Award winners are chosen long before the event in a deliberative process a lot more like evaluating a doctoral thesis than watching a DVD of Little Miss Sunshine. And in fact, everyone at the ceremony had reason to be happy, be they a winner, a member of the Academy, or a date willing to laugh at math jokes for an excuse to get dressed up and eat filet mignon...