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...evidenced by accusations of hyper-sensitivity and race-baiting following the Quad incident, it seems as though the general attitude has not been to learn from our country’s racist past, but to disengage from it. Underlying the refusal to acknowledge the painful reality of racism is the agonizing fear that racism still exists, or even worse, that one may be racist. In some cases, the aversion to racism even manifests itself in destructive ways; racism is so detestable that, in fear, we convince ourselves that it is no longer a problem...
...openness has had a visible effect in Riga. Jobs are plentiful and wages are rising fast: for construction workers, they jumped 50% last year. Prosperity is evident in everything from new Swedish hyper-markets, where parking spots are hard to come by, to the Italian cars rolling around the city's cobblestone streets. "If you want to do something, you have a future here," says Eri Esta, the 33-year-old chairman of a major stevedoring firm at the port. Esta, who graduated from a local business school in 2005, now earns a comfortable salary, takes vacations in Western Europe...
Google something, anything. Behind the famous search box, you'll find a very different Google at play. The company's hyper-accurate algorithms, (you know, those mathematical formulas that deliver answers in a fraction of a second), now include video, maps, books, news, images and blogs. The additional features are rolled into all Google's search results, ranked by relevancy and presented in a complete list starting on the main home page. Previously, users needed to go to the company's specialized channels like "Video," "Maps," "Books" or "Images" to see results from different kinds of media. Google calls...
...ought to embrace the effort, in order to demonstrate a campus wide commitment to racial progressivism. In this way, we may show that this is, in fact, our Harvard—not the divisive community Counter and his gang would like to invent as a weapon in their hyper-p.c. crusade...
Indeed, perhaps the Harvard of fifty years ago provides a healthier academic and social model for us to follow. A substantive core curriculum ensured undergraduates learned math and read Shakespeare and Plato. Hyper-competitive students moderated themselves through a custom that shunned egoistic ambition. Grade inflation hardly existed, for earning a “Gentleman’s ‘C’” was no mark of shame—indeed, everyone already understood that a Harvard degree meant something...