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OK, but the disparities in SAT scores are no big deal. The response attacks The Crimson's mention of the disparity in the SAT scores between athletes and legacies and their non-athlete, non-legacy counterparts. It argues that the 130- and 35-point average differences are not "meaningful"--even...
How the pendulum has swung. In some quarters nowadays, the name of the man who sailed the ocean blue in 1492 is a downright dirty word. Russell Means, the Native American activist, says the explorer "makes Hitler look like a juvenile delinquent." In a new revisionist biography, The Conquest of...
"This ordinance is a fair and even-handed way to resolve the parking freeze matter," said Debra McManus, co-chair of the Cambridge Citizens for Livable Neighborhoods and a plaintiff in the suit to enforce the 1973 freeze. "Cars equal pollution. Pollution equals resperatory problems, heart aliments and brain disfunction...
I was interested to see that your November 7 issue contained both an editorial about the injustice of Harvard's athlete and legacy favoring admission policy and an article on Kathy Dowling, an enthusiastically anti-intellectual member of the volleyball and track teams.
"Leadership in Africa is now a very serious problem," said Wamba. African leaders have to "destroy the colonial state legacy and at the same time build on it," Wamba said.