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...Fletcher Maynard Academy Principal Robin Harris expressed positive sentiments about the evolution of the school lunch menu over the past few years...
...orthodoxy goes, AAAS has never been the same since the departure of its star, Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West to the bucolic refuge of Princeton. With him went a peerless academic mind, an architect of intricate and novel theories on the politics and sociology of race that revolutionized our understanding of American society. It is said AAAS will be lucky if it ever recovers from the loss...
...intellectual energy” of the Institute and that the new building “shows the growth of this enterprise.” He added that the new space “shows how important African and African American studies is at Harvard.” Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. ’87, a major Harvard donor who also endowed the professorship most recently held by former Harvard faculty member Cornel R. West ’74, said yesterday that “it’s amazing how [the Institute’s operations] have all come together...
...Good things” is an understatement. From 1993 to 2001, the department could do no wrong under the leadership of Gates, former Carswell Professor K. Anthony Appiah, and former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74. More than 500 students regularly packed West’s introductory course in Afro-American Studies, Af-Am 10, eager to experience his dynamic lectures. Gates palled around with Bill Clinton (the man whom Toni Morrison referred to as our first black president). Gates, West, and the whole Af-Am team were an academic powerhouse...
...However, the warehouse-like store best known for its eccentric style and $1.50 per pound clothing is actually housed in a former soap factory. The walls have long since been covered in fuchsia paint and Led Zeppelin posters, but according to the store’s co-owner, Brooke Fletcher, the building is “the last of its kind,” one of the few remnants of Cambridge’s industrial past. The city of Cambridge takes that fact seriously. Though most of the surrounding buildings have been razed and replaced with condos, the Cambridge Historical...