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...decision, Eggers explained, came after prolonged frustration and feeling as if he “had hit a wall.” Three hours after giving up on the project altogether, Eggers said, he realized he would only be able to “achieve something great, make an impact?? by telling Valentino’s story in the form of a novel. “That sense of duty that you have to a person—telling it well was everything. Just telling it wasn’t good enough,” Eggers said. Valentino...
...foot rule as a kind of approximation. This would be fine if it allowed prosecutorial or judicial discretion for cases that defy reason. As written, however, the law provides no such exception, a fact that peeves prosecutors and judges—who focus on its racially disparate impact??as much as Harvard students. The state court’s chief justice for administration and management, Robert A. Mullignan, has criticized such laws vociferously. He pointed out that, for instance, in the city of Boston “unless you’re on the tarmac of Logan Airport...
While Harvard’s decision to check Bailey’s credit score may not have been intentionally discriminatory, Hoffman said the decision could fall under the category of antidiscrimination laws prohibiting discrimination that has “a disparate impact?? on minorities...
...Last month, in a move that activists said reflects the impact of the growing divestment movement on the Sudanese government, Sudanese Ambassador Khidir Haroun Ahmed posted an open letter on the government’s website calling for the end of divestment because of its “negative impact?? on “the people of Sudan.” Benjamin B. Collins ’06, a member of the divestment committee of the College’s Darfur Action Group (DAG), said that Cambridge’s divestment “would be a great...
...Penning his response to the committee later that afternoon, the president did not apologize, acknowledging only that he “misjudged the impact?? of his role in the conference at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Summers, who also conceded that he “could have done a better job framing” his remarks, offered to meet with the committee at a later date. He signed the letter, “Best, Larry...