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When I decided to join a final club, my mother was not pleased. Her voice tinged with disappointment as she asked how her son could participate in something so steeped in racist, elitist, sexist privilege. I countered that white skin and blue blood were no longer club membership requirements. But she wasn’t sold. What about the women? She persisted. After a few abortive rationalizations, I realized I had no good answer. I was embarrassed...
...said that he is excited to join the faculty because he feels that “Harvard is one of the leaders in pioneering international law for its students...
After undergoing a competitive process, over 50 new resident tutors have been hired across the 12 residential Houses to join the Senior Common Rooms and participate in House leadership next year...
...Egypt's constitution. His expanding coalition is so far composed of individuals rather than parties, but its energizing impact on the Egyptian political scene is unprecedented. And its potential to go further than any of its predecessors is demonstrated by the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood - which declined to join ranks with the last pro-democracy effort, Kifaya (Enough) in 2005 - says it's ready to jump on ElBaradei's bandwagon. The Brotherhood's secretary general, Mahmoud Hussein, declared publicly last week that his group would join ElBaradei's coalition as a party - if he'll have them...
...ElBaradei has yet to signal whether he'll allow the Islamists to join his coalition. But some say the support of the Brotherhood as a bloc would give any reform movement the spine it needs to stand up to a regime willing to get tough. Such an alliance would also greatly expand the grass-roots organizational reach of ElBaradei's coalition, which has thus far been unable to set up regional campaign offices or raise funds in a closely controlled political system. "The national coalition doesn't need Tagamma or the Nasserists," says Joshua Stacher, an Egypt expert at Kent...