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...France, President Nicolas Sarkozy introduced a pedagogical emphasis on the Holocaust to his country’s classrooms. But while this attempt to address and correct one of history’s great crimes demonstrated laudable self-awareness, it also had the character of a stunt: Where was the mention of France’s more recent oversteps in colonial Algeria? Perhaps education design should be left to the educators, and not the politicians. It is, of course, difficult to ask or impel any major power to come to grips with its past errors, but the nearer states draw...
...over the No. 6 singles player in the nation. Ko, who went 10-8 to lead Harvard in winning percentage on the season, finished the year ranked No. 93 in the nation. She was named to the All-Ivy First Team in singles and was an All-Ivy Honorable Mention in doubles with freshman partner Samantha Rosekrans. The junior was also the only Ivy League player to compete in the NCAA tournament, though she lost 6-3, 7-5 in the first round to the No. 14 player in the nation. By the time the Crimson made...
...Draft registration more generally, not just in the context of cutting off financial aid fund for non-registrants, was a bigger issue that year, earning mention in a Crimson recap of the 1982-1983 academic year as an issue that had occupied the campus’ attention. But even that article took care to show that the stir over the draft registration was limited: apart from an October rally on the steps of Memorial Church to oppose draft registration, little else happened...
...Inside the church, Wright's successor, Rev. Otis Moss III, didn't directly mention the Obama episode during his morning sermons. In fact his only oblique reference to Obama came during the call to prayer at the altar: "Every Christian is part of our family. Whether they're physically with us or not - they're part of our family...
...Instead, the panel's lunch turned into a three-hour closed-door session, during which the members finally agreed on a compromise - though it was basically the position taken by the Obama campaign, not to mention the one Republicans smartly came up with for their side long before the disputed primaries took place: seat both delegations but grant each only half a vote per delegate as a penalty. In what the Obama campaign called a "gift" to Clinton they agreed to seat Florida's delegates based on the results of that state's January 29th primary, yielding Clinton...