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Though the program met with opposition from civil rights advocates, it was reinstated in October 2006 by then-Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney in an attempt to deter terrorist acts...
...Rudenstine’s address also held a seemingly prophetic warning for his successor, Summers. “We can be civil without being simply innocuous,” Rudenstine said. “We can be controversial and provocative without necessarily declaring open season on those who disagree with us. The way we talk to one another, and the tone we use in argument or debate, will often be as important as what we actually...
...choice for a speaker because she represents in her work the “American experience as it was in the past and as it is, the history of slavery, the history of freedom.” The reading also resonated with Faust’s background as a Civil War historian. Faust spoke immediately after the reading, thanking Morrison for her contributions to literature and for “bearing witness to the past.” This is Morrison’s second visit to Harvard this year, having received the 2007 Radcliffe Institute Medal in June. Morrison...
...painted in the year of his death, is a bright, bare-breasted swan song. The 40s are represented by a painting from the Busch-Reisinger’s own collection, which rounds out an engaging quartet. Fogg Art Museum Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) Through Nov. 11, 2007 Billed as, “A fitting tribute to Harvard’s new president,” “Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)” commemorates Drew G. Faust?...
...Faust's speech was also distinctly her own, reflecting her years spent in academia as a historian of the Civil...