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...Committee on Degrees in Social Studies. “It’s a great honor to receive tenure at Harvard,” Shelby said, “It’s obviously not an easy thing to do.” Shelby said he was drawn to Harvard by the strength of its faculty—particularly Kwame Anthony Appiah and Cornel West, who both taught at Harvard when he arrived in 2000. “The consolidation of people in African American Studies [means that] such a strong group of people is working on issues of race...
...Kings The threat of a coup may be exaggerated, but it points to perhaps the single greatest achievement of the Maoist insurgency: the unraveling of a national myth. Nepal came into being through the 1768 military campaign of King Prithvi Narayan Shah and his army drawn from Gurkha tribes in the hills near Kathmandu. Ever since, Nepal's polity has remained largely unchanged: its borders an approximation of the land conquered, its political élites tied to old families close to both the monarchy and the army, and its princely rulers all descended from the same messianic line. Power...
...issue of university endowment spending, which has drawn the attention of Senator Charles E. Grassley, came to the fore last week when he and Senate Finance committee chair Max S. Baucus sent letters to the 136 wealthiest colleges in the nation, requesting detailed information about their investments and spending practices...
...energized by the unscripted, pundit-baffling freedom of a wide-open race, young people are voting in numbers rarely seen since the general election of 1972 - the first in which the voting age was lowered to 18. Obama is both catalyst and beneficiary. In state after state, he has drawn more young voters than any of his competitors. For a group of voters with no memory of a time before Bushes and Clintons, Obama is a fresh face. His opponents promise to fight, but Obama promises healing. His is the language of possibility, which is the native tongue...
...while in the race in 2004, he initially vowed to fight on all the way to the convention, focusing on southern states like Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas and Oklahoma on Super Tuesday; many speculated that Edwards could play a key role in what is shaping up to be a drawn-out delegate fight between Clinton and Obama...