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...speakers delivered a succession of short speeches, each of which demanded a specific change from the University. The demands ranged from the “democratization?? of the Harvard Corporation to the diminishment of final clubs to the immediate resignation of Summers...

Author: By David Zhou, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Protest at Faculty Meeting | 2/23/2005 | See Source »

...rights and enforce contracts. Indeed, we see the results of Summers’ recipe in Ferguson’s book. He cites the work of political scientist Seymour Lipset, who showed that countries that are former British colonies had a substantially better chance of achieving “enduring democratization?? and economic development than the former colonies of other empires like France, Spain and Portugal. In fact, in almost every case where a former colony of at least a million people has emerged from the colonial era as a democracy, it was a British colony. Other colonial powers...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: America’s Lessons From the Legacy of British Empire | 4/25/2003 | See Source »

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