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...followed, I recognized a more practical problem with having few professors of color: Many times, research issues relating to minorities are overlooked by a faculty devoid of minorities. After deciding to study the issue of minority voting rights, I confronted the fact that few professors in the Government Department dealt primarily with this important research area. The current debate surrounding the issue of voting rights hits at the heart of democratic notions of fair representation and inclusion, yet Harvard's largest department has a relative lack of emphasis on that area...
...said originally, had Gina been dealt withas she should have been this would be a mootpoint, but since the system did not deal with heras she should have she has certainly paid her justdesserts [and should be admitted to college]unless she commits another crime," Metts said
...poem "40 Days and 40 Nights," which tells the experience of receiving an HIV test--it was an extraordinary fact that [New Yorker Poetry Editor] Alice Quinn took that poem when she did. To my knowledge, there had never been a poem like that in the magazine, that dealt so explicitly with what was then considered a gay experience. That was an extraordinary fact. Now, with Tina Brown, the lid is very much off and there's no measure of censorship...
...ideals, and we all worked toward some purpose." Now, "the only thing people work for is money," he notes. "Something has been lost." Like most of his era, Evdokimov has little to say of Stalin and the terror. "Maybe some of the parents of my friends were dealt a blow by Stalin," he says. "But it was rude to talk about...
...Justice Department dealt Microsoft Corp. a stunning setback by suing to block the software giant's acquisition of Intuit Inc., maker of the predominant personal finance software Quicken. It would have been the largest software merger ever and would also have given Microsoft a formidable lead in the emerging market of online personal finance transactions.Anne Bingaman, Justice's antitrust chief, said allowing the deal "would likely result in higher prices for consumers who want to buy personal finance software and would cause those buyers to miss out on the huge benefits from innovation." Newly-minted conventional wisdom, notesTIME technology editor...