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...there’s a tendency in this to defeatism and not recognizing the enormous amount of what is good that is happening in the world.... People think the Marshall Plan was really very good. The Marshall Plan provided Europe with an amount of money that was equal to about 2-3 percent of Europe’s GNP each year for four years. Sub-Saharan Africa receives each year about 11 percent of its GNP and it has for the last 20 years. And so yes, there’s certainly a case for more foreign...
...women in current scholarship, nor do we want to neglect the history of CDWS. Preserving the word “women” in the title is particularly important in light of the history of women at Harvard, one of the last leading universities to admit women as equal students (it was only in 2000, after all, that female graduates of Harvard didn’t have a Radcliffe seal singling out their diplomas as ‘separate but equal’), and one of the last to legitimize women’s studies with a standing committee...
Leah Pogoriler, a second-year HLS student, called the issue a “very close battle” that has divided Review editors, with some worried about students not taking the Review seriously and others advocating the need for equal gender representation...
...Review accepts 14 first-years as “grade-ons”—those with the highest average score giving equal weight to grades and the writing sample. Twenty students are accepted solely on the basis of their writing scores, and seven to nine editors are accepted based on a student committee’s review of all their information, including grades, writing scores, race and any kind of disabilities—but not gender...
...anything, Smith’s words underscore the importance of allowing all Harvard students an equal opportunity to sample the political and literary works of non-Western cultures in order to the prevent the sort of blind-eyed ignorance that his article attempts to propagate...