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...mailed Acting Associate Dean of Harvard College Judith H. Kidd to inquire how Harvard will officially respond to the flag incident...
...fact that Dean has been using the same anecdote all year seemed to escape most media commentary—though, should it be of any interest to anyone, Dean, as much as it pains his opponents to admit, does not condone Confederate flags. As William Saletan of Slate.com pointed out, just as Dean has made symbolic references to the flag in numerous public statements, he “was saying that his party shouldn’t write off people who share its economic philosophy just because they don’t yet share its understanding of civil rights...
...this is. Having grown up in Texas, it’s easy for me to empathize with Southern-stereotype frustration. From northeastern editorial pages that reference “Bonanza,” six-shooters and tumbleweed every time they write about Texas to Dean’s unfortunate flag comment, we have to put up with a lot. But even the best of us sometimes indulge in stereotypes—something to avoid, but something that often happens nonetheless. It is safe to assume that Dean’s reference to the Confederate flag was simply a case...
Sannwald wasn’t the only Harvard alumnus who fought under the flag of an Axis nation during World War II. Special Student Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto—one of the central planners behind the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor—and Dr. Shokichi Otajima, a 1934 graduate of the School of Public Health, were killed in the Japanese army in New Georgia and Saipan, respectively. Their names, unlike Sannwald’s, remain tucked in yellowing folders in the University Archives...
...firebase looks like a Wild West cavalry fort, ringed with coils of razor wire. A U.S. flag ripples above the 3-ft.-thick mud walls, and in the watchtower a guard scans the expanse of forested ridges, rising to 9,000 ft., that mark the border. When there's trouble, it usually comes from that direction, which is exactly what happened early in the morning of Sept...