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...some questions about the scholastic merit of West’s extracurricular activities, such as recording a spoken-word album, filming cameos for The Matrix sequels and advising the Rev. Al Sharpton on his potential 2004 presidential campaign. The conflict between Summers and West, among other things, was a clash between two different definitions of what it means to be a public intellectual...
While most of his speech focused on the importance of transgressing the bounds of political correctness and academic scholarship to critically examine and change society, West did allude to last year’s clash with University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...West's evident freedom and prosperity. "It was the power of example that made the difference," Mandelbaum says. "People believed what they noticed rather than what they were told." In the same vein, Mircea Geoana, Foreign Minister of Romania, believes the transformation of tyrannies comes not from a clash of ideologies but from countless decisions of the human heart. Democracy and freedom, Geoana said to me last week, are indeed "universal ideas," but he identified the key driver for change in Europe as the simple "desire of families to see their children lead a better life...
Even some band members say they can see a silver lining to the scheduling clash...
Harvard is no place for the meek. Strong opinions and strong wills clash in newspaper columns, journal articles, public debates and private arguments. Last Monday’s appointment of Clowes Research Professor Henry Ehrenreich as University ombudsman is an effort to replace some of this acrimony with compromise. The newly created office will be a resource for conflicts between faculty, students, employees and the administration. Ehrenreich will provide informal mediation and advice to parties in a disagreement, but will lack the authority to impose mediated solutions. While the exact parameters of this potentially vast role remain undefined, there...