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...April 8, 1996, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 published an article in The Crimson ("A Poor Defense of Diversity") which argued that Harvard is suffering from a lack of morale because of the stubborn intellectual inferiority blacks exhibit. While not openly stating that black inferiority was inherent, he insinuated that unchangeable biological reasons were behind what he saw as the less-than-stellar achievements among Harvard's African-American students. Sadly, Mansfield's article is in line with today's racist tactics. Posing as learned men, many of today's leading academics preach the inferiority...
That's not surprising, in view of the predictable embarrassment the news has caused. "Why the exhibit was not put on earlier is one of those questions to which there is no answer," says Vladimir Tolstikov, chief curator of the Pushkin's classics department, who has known about the treasure for two decades. Under the Soviets, he says, "we were always told, 'Your job is to take care of these objects and not to get mixed up in things that are none of your business...
...after the man slaughtered the children in Dunblane, Scotland, and used his last shot to obliterate Exhibit A, which was his own brain, people ransacked whatever evidence remained. They looked in the man's past for telltale shreds, for that tracery of cause and effect that lets the mind begin to make peace with such events. The horror needs to be processed in words, to be identified as scientifically as possible, and thereby locked, uneasily, in the confines of explanatory language...
...very inclusiveness of Carter's integrity makes it alarmingly content-free. Even a Nazi concentration-camp operative, to draw on one of Carter's illustrative cases, could, on the face of it, exhibit "integrity" by zipping through the three-step program before turning on the gas. In which case "integrity" wouldn't be much more than an accessory, like a walking stick or a pipe, designed to impart some of that ineffable quality we all seem to crave--gravitas...
...addition to wowing Cambridge residents of all ages, the students presenting the exhibit also benefited from the experience...