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...Harvard Black Men’s Forum (BMF) will honor actress Phylicia Rashad—best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on “The Cosby Show”—with a “Woman of the Year Award” in their Ninth Annual Celebration of Black Women Friday...
Among his many accomplishments in the film industry, Taradash served as president of both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Writers Guild of America, west, throughout the 1970s. In 1996, Taradash received the Guild’s highest honor, the Screen Laurel Award...
...however, though the draft may honor citizens for their patriotism, it is also one of the most glaring examples of state-sanctioned sexual discrimination. The reality is that despite persisting stereotypes about the weak nature of women in the military, women can and do fight in combat positions with as much strength as their fellow male soldiers. In 1995, the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine in Natick, Mass. found that after 24 weeks of physical training, more than 75 percent of the ordinary female civilians in the study could do the tasks male soldiers were required...
Following a very different kind of free-speech controversy last November, Peretz professor of Yiddish literature Ruth R. Wisse wrote in a Crimson op-ed: “Free speech being one of democracy’s dearest privileges, we should use it to protect and honor those worthiest of our esteem.” Wisse’s standard applies nicely to the current debate. Students citing the Constitution to defend every act of obscenity and rabble-rousing on college campuses should show more discretion when deciding what speech is worthy of their esteem...
Harvard officially clinched the Ivy title Friday night when Penn closed out an 82-58 thrashing of second-place Brown about an hour after the Crimson’s 61-47 win over Cornell. But there was no crowd present to honor the achievement. The Lavietes bleachers had long been tucked away...