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...people on the basis of minority status, but for some reason we have not erased our prejudice against disability. One insidious form of this bias is to distinguish cognitively disabled persons from persons whose disabilities are “just” physical. Cognitively disabled people are shown a manifest lack of respect in daily life, as well. This has gotten so perturbing to me that when I fly, I try to wear my Harvard t-shirt so I can “pass” as a person without cognitive disability. (I have severe cerebral palsy, the result...
...Taxi Driver proved that the Italian-American movie-maker was no fluke. Robert DeNiro, the star of that movie, appeared again as a powerful figure on the brink of insanity, this time as Jake LaMotta, a real-life former middleweight boxing champion whose power had a tendency to also manifest itself outside the ring, and who followed up boxing with stints in the mob, prison, and stand-up comedy. In honor of this occasion, the Brattle Theater is celebrating with a week of Raging Bull, which won Oscars both for leading actor DeNiro and for best editing. The black...
When she learned this year’s Hasty Pudding show would be set during Manifest Destiny’s heyday, president of Native Americans at Harvard College (NAHC) Erica A. Scott ’06 decided to negotiate some terms of agreement for “Terms of Frontierment...
...largely because it is one of the most underreported crimes in the U.S., with an estimated 84 percent of women not reporting their rapes to police (The National Women’s Study). Acts of sexual violence often lead to severe psychological and physical trauma in survivors that can manifest itself in a variety of mental and physical health hazards throughout these people’s lives—including depression, anxiety, and substance abuse...
...only major fault we find with Crimsoncupid is its current Harvard-only restriction; the site is limiting the scope of its potential greatness. The entrepreneurial creators Jonathan Hyman ’08 and Kevin Bombino ’08 would do well to adopt the manifest-destiny-like strategy of Thefacebook and aggressively expand to Boston University, Boston College, Wellesley, Northeastern and Tufts. While Harvard’s 6,500 students are an interesting bunch, the amorous possibilities of having tens of thousands of area college students linked together in one vast electronic embrace are too great to imagine. Harvard...