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...continued making major additions to the collection. William Melvin Kelley contributed a remarkable short story entitled, “My Next to Last Hit.” Eileen Southern, who studied musicology at NYU before becoming the first African-American woman to earn full tenure at Harvard, wrote an essay about her pioneering experience. Huggins, to whose memory we dedicated the volume, wrote a revealing retrospective. And Professor Randall Kennedy of Harvard Law School (HLS) wrote the much-needed introduction. Hearing of these additions, New York University Press finally agreed to publish the collection. When Blacks at Harvard appeared...
...Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel R. West ’74 and other distinguished faculty who left prominent academic posts to join Harvard’s program are needed. Given the book’s move to NYU, it would also be fascinating to have a new essay by Professor Derrick Bell, who, citing the failure of the administration at the HLS to tenure a woman of color, left for NYU after the book had been published. Boskey Professor of Law Lani Guinier has since become the first African-American woman to be tenured at HLS, and she ought...
...student yesterday posted a college admissions essay to the site’s English bulletin board and discussed it for 40 minutes with tutor Caitlin Lowans, a senior at Georgetown University who is currently the only non-Harvard tutor in the program...
...PHOTO ESSAY...
Joan Didion, known largely for her fiction but also for her logical, meticulous and truthful essay writing, wants us to know exactly how little control we have over the process. In her elegant and incisive depiction of the usurpation of the political system, Political Fictions, Didion contends that politics has become little more than a fine-tuned performance, a rehearsed moment designed with the ultimate goal of increasing the power of the inner circle and pushing the “outsiders” further away...