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Salman Rushdie, whose 1988 novel “The Satanic Verses” triggered the Supreme Leader of Iran to issue a fatwa against him that sentenced Rushdie to death and forced him into hiding for many years, braved the Harvard community Friday night to speak at Memorial Church for...

Author: By Arianna Markel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Humanist Forum Hosts Rushdie | 4/23/2007 | See Source »

Cherokee members held black slaves until 1865, when they and their Confederate allies were defeated in the Civil War. Following their emancipation, many black “freedmen,” as they are still known, chose to remain among the Cherokee, retaining their cultural heritage. Freedmen were officially recognized...

Author: By Jeff D. Nanney | Title: Who You Are Not | 4/22/2007 | See Source »

As regards the U.S., this entire debacle is an issue of self-determination. The Cherokee repeatedly assert their hard-earned right to self-determination, and in this instance, the right to determine their citizenry. But their position is contradictory; self-determination is not just the right of the majority to...

Author: By Jeff D. Nanney | Title: Who You Are Not | 4/22/2007 | See Source »

By excluding members because of race, the Cherokee are engaging in the very practices they object to in the U.S. They are acting as an overbearing authority determined to tell you the freedmen who they are, who their ancestors were, and with whom they identify. If that’s...

Author: By Jeff D. Nanney | Title: Who You Are Not | 4/22/2007 | See Source »

While most Harvard students see an undergraduate degree as their road to prestige, Francisco Saldana and Victor Cabrera started elsewhere at the University: working in the Leverett House dining hall. They left Harvard in 2001 for Puerto Rico and have since become the production kings of reggaeton. As Luny Tunes...

Author: By Elsa S. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Reggaeton Stars Luny Tunes Come Home to Harvard | 4/20/2007 | See Source »

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