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Sitrick says companies have to be aggressive about responding to bloggers, lest a minor controversy multiply into a major media scandal. Sitrick employs so-called truth squads in sensitive cases, who monitor blogs for items on clients and quickly counter any false rumors...
...director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations—praised this year’s recipient. “For over a half century, she has given masterful stage and screen performances that have awed and inspired Americans of all backgrounds,” Counter said. Dee, who starred opposite Sidney Poitier in the 1961 film, “A Raisin in the Sun,” has been known throughout her acting career for portraying characters on stage and screen that countered racial stereotypes. Along with her late-husband Ossie Davis, Dee is known...
...snaked around the building, this year, inclement weather kept the line confined to the dry indoors. Some students commented that the wait to get ice cream was pleasantly short, as it took only a few minutes to travel from the Ben & Jerry’s entrance to the counter where they were met by busy employees and volunteers. But as the day drew to a close, students descended on The Garage in ever larger numbers. “I checked it out around 4 o’clock around this afternoon and the line was at the door...
...Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, will stand alongside Gov. Deval L. Patrick ’78 tomorrow at an event that will honor each man’s service to the state’s community of African-American males. Counter, an associate professor of neurology and neuroscience, will receive the recognition from the Concerned Black Men of Massachusetts largely for his work within the greater Boston community, in particular the science programs he has conducted to encourage more young black boys and girls to go into science...
Tommy Amaker accepted an offer to lead the Crimson’s men’s basketball team, Harvard said yesterday, making him the only African American among its 32 head coaches. Just hours before the announcement, Nichols Family Director of Athletics Robert L. Scalise countered widespread criticism of the lack of diversity in the upper ranks of the Crimson’s coaching staffs. At a gathering hosted by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, Scalise stressed the difficulty of hiring minority coaches. Scalise said it was particularly hard to foster diversity in sports such as alpine...