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...page 103 of his book, Ogletree— referring to civil rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois, Class of 1890—writes: “His demands included freedom of speech, education, ‘manhood suffrage,’ and the ‘abolition of all caste distinctions based simply on race and color...
Today’s temporary Fly-By “servery”—a line of tables with potato chips and the chili du jour—spans one side of the transept, and a row of squatting students spans the other. On nice days, a few students will sit on the steps of Memorial Hall to eat. This is a far cry from the days of Loker, which—dreary as it may have been—gave students the chance to (gasp) sit at a table to eat lunch. Now University Hall says that...
...other faculty who are University professors.“It’s without a doubt the greatest honor I’ve ever received, and I’m deeply humbled by President Bok’s generosity,” said Gates, who directs the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research.“This is a great day for Harvard,” Alphonse Fletcher Jr. ’87, who endowed the position, wrote in an e-mail.“I can’t think of a finer recipient...
...been a wildly successful time; South African wine exports have grown almost eightfold since the early 1990s, a stronger performance even than Australia's (albeit from a lower base). Innovative marketing has helped: Charles Back, for example, has enraged French authorities by making a successful Côtes-du-Rhône?style range that he calls Goats Do Roam. And Nick Dymoke-Marr, who created a new brand called Stormhoek, added a date-code indicator on the back of bottles that highlights when they should be consumed. The reasoning: "With most food products, the concept of sell-by date...
...Sept. 18]. As you must know, this country has survived much more dangerous shaking, political or otherwise. And although Royal is quite right in declaring that one should not have to be "sad, ugly and boring to go into politics," what about being modest? Jean-Jacques Luccioni St.-Laurent-du-Var, France Doing Unto Others the issue regarding the treatment of prisoners suspected of being terrorists is fundamental to the strategy for winning the war on terrorism [Sept. 18]. The Bush Administration is living in the world of 50 years ago, a time when wars could be won militarily...