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...positive image through their bi-weekly “BMF Tie Day,” which Brotherhood Chair Sangu Delle ’10 described not only as “a symbolic gesture of unity and brotherhood,” but something that works to “[dispel] the stereotype that black men are not professional.” A noble ideal, indeed. But it begs the question: What’s really the issue here? Are people not provided enough positive images of black men? Or are they using their socially constructed heuristics and stereotypes to seek...

Author: By Aparicio J. Davis | Title: I Am My Race? | 11/8/2007 | See Source »

It’s very rare to see a team win and still drop in the polls, but voters are responding a string of two straight relatively uninspiring victories from the Bulldogs. First, they needed three overtimes to dispel a two-win Penn team and last weekend they were blanked for 33 minutes by last-place Columbia...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Getting Excited For The Game | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...President Drew G. Faust’s installation last month, Bhabha shielded himself from the rain with a pink-and-red umbrella decorated with flower blossoms. When asked what fashion myth about academics he would like to dispel, Bhabha told the Globe: “That they always wear baggy tweed jackets. Or shapeless jeans...

Author: By Lindsay P. Tanne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Home to Haute Couture | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...communications with Expos instructors, known as preceptors, Jehn appeared less confident. In an Aug. 8 message obtained by The Crimson, he attempted to reassure instructors, saying that administrators would meet with them in September to "dispel any rumors of massive re-structuring" of Expos...

Author: By Samuel P. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Expos Director Exits | 8/28/2007 | See Source »

...bangers" who she said were behind the city's post-Katrina crime wave. And when Democratic U.S. Rep. William Jefferson was indicted on corruption charges last June, a group calling itself Justice for Jefferson raised charges that his prosecution was racially motivated - an accusation the Congressman did little to dispel during his successful reelection campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Healing Katrina's Racial Wounds | 8/27/2007 | See Source »

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