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...seems interested in trying again for this year's MLK day; last year's bust was an all-too-common reminder of Atlanta's nagging social segregation - a sort of benign but nonetheless disturbing separate but equal. "It's [still] the South [and] people aren't as open-minded here as other cities like San Francisco or New York," says Jill Renee Brummond, who does marketing and event planning for local clubs. "People are focused on color here. Atlanta as a whole is set in its ways." Alison White, a black, 30-something medical recruiter, agrees: "There...
...Quad booty-call: a freshman mistake. 3:48 AM—The other passenger on the shuttle disembarks at the Quad and I see the driver’s stare in the rearview mirror as I cozy up and prepare for the return. Nonstop round-trips must not be common. 4:09 AM—My jaunt on the shuttle comes to an end as we pull into Lamont. I thank the driver, take my last few breaths of fresh air, plug my nose, cover up any exposed wounds, and enter Lamont’s filthy stank...
...what kinds of knowledge and what forms of inquiry exist in these areas, how different means of analysis are acquired, how they are used, and what their value is.” Somehow, it manages to do this without actually imparting any knowledge. This emphasis not on a common base of reference but a common set of “approaches” leaves Harvard students seeking to fulfill the Core with the choice between rigorous introductory courses geared towards prospective concentrators and unbelievably abstruse Core classes about topics like Boll Weevils in 1680s Holland. Few survey courses remain that...
Thirty women from war-torn countries discussed the role of women in peace building Wednesday as a part of a four-day program aimed at bringing women leaders together to shape public policy. “We share a common goal, which is that security isn’t about tanks and soldiers, it’s about the ability to go to school, to get help, to get food,” said Wazhma Frogh, a gender and development specialist in Afghanistan. The panel, titled “Engendering Peace: Security Through an Inclusive Lens,” featured...
...gathering certainly was not short on inspiring talk. Former Irish President Mary Robinson urged attendees to "open ourselves to new ways of thinking," and "to find a way to communicate that is humble." And Jordan's Queen Noor insisted that "there is a fundamental, common humanity that towers above our differences." But there was skepticism about whether the worthy pronouncement could usher in concrete change. Forum participant Mohammed El-Fifi, a spokesman for the Islamic Cultural Center, Spain's largest mosque, summed up a widely held concern: "Talk is talk. Can they transform all this talk into action? That...