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...Next year I hope we can build community, really foster community of black women on campus,” Jackson said...
That legacy persists. Deep down, Harvard would rather study the arts than practice them, at least as part of the formal curriculum. Neil and Angelica Rudenstine loved the arts more than Larry does, I think it is fair to say. But they were largely content to foster undergraduate extracurricular activity. What I have been arguing for, at the moment of the undergraduate curricular review and the planning for Allston, is for administrators and faculty not to ratify the present but to re-imagine the future...
...issue is less to push a position than to encourage others to come to a position: to add my own voice to a swelling chorus urging FAS and the administration and the OFA to work together to rationalize and foster the arts at Harvard in a way that makes academic sense, financial sense and creative sense. This may not constitute an exercise of awesome Overseer power on my part. But it has been a lot of fun, and maybe it will do some good...
Political systems which tolerate or encourage extreme views foster hatred, according to Glaeser...
...regime. They confirmed the popular suspicion that there is one story for insiders and another one for regular suckers--the journalistic equivalent of Martha Stewart and ImClone. Too many Americans already live in parallel universes, one controlled by a vast right-wing conspiracy, another in which Vincent Foster was murdered. In even more polarized and desperate quarters, people believe the Mossad brought down the World Trade Center. At the extreme, this world view is the mind-set of terrorism: that history is a hermetic system and the only way to get inside it is to smash it from without...