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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...just want to show that subtle forms of racism exist, such as seeing a group of black people on Harvard property and assuming they don’t belong there,” he added...

Author: By Anna L. Tong, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Air Racism Concerns | 5/14/2007 | See Source »

...insurgency needs to exist, survive, flourish - and eventually possibly succeed - is the acquiescence of the population," Brooks says. He notes several reasons residents supported the insurgency in Ghazaliya, including a political or religious opposition to the U.S. presence and an unwillingness on the part of Sunnis to submit to a Shi'ite-dominated government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trying to Make the Surge Work | 5/14/2007 | See Source »

...even if we accept this idea of social valuation, obviously some insecurities still exist, and cannot be dissolved with platitudes. They are here to stay. Middle and working class students will never give the real reason why they can’t just jet set to London for the weekend because that might be admitting that, though we’re on our way to a place among the nation’s elite, we aren’t there...

Author: By Will E. Johnston | Title: A White Elephant in Class | 5/11/2007 | See Source »

Harvard is wealthy, but even the rich face trade-offs, and spending more on security guards could mean spending less on something else that may be of far greater value to the university—and the poor. Furthermore, at a university where so many avenues exist to register protest, embarking on a hunger strike is rash and self-destructive, and encouraging others to do so is cynical and manipulative...

Author: By Joel Pollack | Title: Hunger Strike Is Definitely a Misguided Tactic | 5/11/2007 | See Source »

...filet mignon, and Wikipedia-surf, and I don’t volunteer much or consistently advocate for the poor. I plan to devote my life to public service, but what does it say about my character that I don’t practice that service ethic now? Problems exist now, not only in the future, and here I am typing this self-indulgent elitist schlock on the Dell laptop my parents bought...

Author: By Jarret A. Zafran | Title: That Constant Gnawing Guilt | 5/11/2007 | See Source »

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