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...passive acquiescence of an accepting slave population. The subjugation of the slave population was also not the immediate outcome of overwhelming force. Instead, mastery was a constant fight where whites used violence to repress people who never gave up, using both their minds and bodies to either escape or limit the impact of slavery. Faust’s “Mothers of Invention,” which chronicles slaveholding women during the Civil War, seeks to understand a ruling class fighting to keep control in a world spiraling out of control...
...power. She specializes in Southern intellectuals, like James Henry Hammond, Josiah C. Nott and Edmund Ruffin, who embraced slavery and later secession. These are complex characters whose racism was detestable, but who also fought hard to spread occasionally live-saving ideas: Nott promoted the fight against the mosquito to limit malaria, and Ruffin was an agronomist who advocated agricultural lime...
Stern is not the only terrorism researcher to feel that institutional review boards unnecessarily limit her. Scott Atran, a Middle East ethnographer at the University of Michigan, recently sent an essay to his colleagues about his struggles with the IRB process...
...been, and should always strive to be, a place where meritocracy is the heuristic of choice. Students who struggle in high school but experience an academic awakening during college so profound that they find their current environment inadequate should be given a fair chance to attend Harvard; to limit this possibility in favor of a system of quotas is to not only do an injustice to them, but to Harvard as well...
...avoided. Even with a firm and detailed policy, no two situations are the same so similar fact finding would be necessary to determine if a company meets the criteria and little time would be gained.To be fair, the criteria for targeted divestment outlined by HDAG would in practice limit divestment to particularly egregious oil companies operating in Sudan. There are several more such oil companies from which other universities including Princeton, Yale, and the University of California have divested. Harvard should follow suit, taking into account its indirect as well as direct holdings, without adopting a policy rule...