Word: legacyism
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Less than three months after leaving Harvard for Washington, U.S. Solicitor General and former Law School dean Elena Kagan will return to Cambridge as the Law School’s 2009 Class Day speaker. Kagan, who served as the Law School’s dean until confirmed as a member...
Since then, however, the civil-liberties community has started to wonder if its celebration was premature. Though most still remain cautiously optimistic about the White House's leanings, they have watched with concern as the Obama Administration has filed papers in several court cases suggesting that it will side with...
Second, Jacob Zuma will be a controversial inheritor of Mandela's legacy. He faced charges of corruption for years in a case that was dropped in early April but may yet be revived. He was also once accused of rape, though acquitted after a high-profile court case. And whereas...
South Africa's filmmakers are taking that advice to heart. They still crew and act for Hollywood, but the country now churns out a steady roll of its own excellent small films. The year before Tsotsi won its Oscar, South Africa missed out on one for Yesterday, the story of...
Kadyrov has overseen the rooting out of insurgents and the reconstruction of Chechnya with billions of dollars of aid from Moscow. But human rights groups have questioned the tactics employed to achieve Chechnya's much-vaunted "rebirth" and relative current stability. "The legacy [of the counterterrorist operation] is one of...