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...Harvard Faculty gained steam. Ineffectual government was also on the forefront of student thought, as students became disillusioned by the newly-created Student Assembly as well as the tepid politics of the Democratic Party. That Harvard seems prone to a glacial pace of change is manifested in an excerpt on the creation of a new Literature concentration. And lastly, Harvard’s efforts at land development yielded controversy at the Sumner Road apartments, a story that bears no small similarity to the recent dispute over the Charlesview apartments in Allston. George Santayana’s old adage comes...
...female peers—perform better than their test scores indicate. But the Klitgaard Report, as it was popularly called, was prematurely released when The Crimson leaked a rough draft of the report, which was to be finished more than a year later.While Bok criticized The Crimson for releasing excerpts from the unfinished draft, leaders of minority groups criticized Bok for commissioning a report undermining affirmative action. Bok addressed the controversy in an open letter that spring, defending the University’s admissions and hiring policy and reasserting his support for affirmative action.But, then-president of the Black...
...Copyright 2006 by John Updike. Excerpted by permission of Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher
...distracting them from pauses between numbers. The vision of Artistic Director Elizabeth Bergman, the performance ran April 21 to 23. The recital was divided into two acts, with the first act consisting of student choreographed works (by past and present Harvard students), and with the second act comprised of excerpts from famous works by dance icons. The student pieces were to some extent influenced by modern dance, and two of the numbers were collaborations with Harvard music students—part of an effort to fashion completely original works, both musically and choreographically explained Bergman. The second act featured...
...flyer—posted around Eliot House and outside several Yard dorms—was entitled “Iraq: A War for Israel,” and reproduced an excerpt of an essay that Mark Weber wrote for the Institute for Historical Review. It claims that “the crucial factor in President Bush’s decision to attack was to help Israel...