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...more we become aware that under our civilised facade we could be just as bad. Not that any of us could possibly do such a thing: most, I hope, could not live with the memory of inflicting physical pain on anybody. But at the end of the long descent from nebulous fairytale fears, we arrive at the point of fear of oneself, of terror about what, just possibly and terribly, one could become. And so the mirror lies in wait for all of us. To end in a whirl of pretence, Omar Khayyam foresaw it: "I sent my Soul through...
OVER AND OVER, IN ENGLISH, JAPANESE AND KOREAN, the voice on the passenger- cabin intercom repeated, "Urgent descent. Fasten seat belts. Put on masks." Those chilling words and others from the "black box" voice recorder, recovered from the wreckage of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, put to rest the nine-year-old question of whether the 269 passengers died instantly after Soviet fighters shot them out of the sky on Sept. 1, 1983. The crew's response to the disaster provided further evidence that they had no idea they had been attacked by air-to-air missiles. The transcripts...
Khanga, who is of African, Russian and Jewish descent, was at the Kennedy School of Government Friday to promote her new book, Soul to Soul: The Story of a Black Russian American Family...
Only six percent of the student body at Harvard is Hispanic and only 2.5 percent is of Mexican descent. Out of 6400 undergraduates about 400 are Hispanic with about 120 of Mexican descent and of these less than 40 are women. An acquaintance of mine who graduated two years ago recalls that is the same number as when she started her first year. According to the a report compiled by the University's Affirmative Action Office, there are four Hispanic senior faculty in the whole University. I can only name...
...needs so much to prove her diversity. Harvard needs to build the Hispanic community by bringing more of us at every level. The simple problem is that we are not represented on campus, and the less simple answer is that we need more students, faculty and staff of Hispanic descent on this campus...