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Somewhere in the course of Rudenstine's report (about p. 45) the idea of diversity as inherited from the past is suddenly transformed into the new, multicultural idea of representation. The liberal heroes he quotes in support of diversity--John Milton and John Stuart Mill--had no thought that diversity might require proportional representation of ethnic groups. Certainly not! For them true diversity was above all diversity of opinion, and that was the product of a few people who stand on their own feet, who do not bow to public opinion, or look to role models, or need the support...
...conservatives on the faculty at Harvard might serve as an example of the sort of diversity that Milton and Mill had in mind. They are a mere sprinkling in the dull mass of liberals, in ridiculous disproportion to their number in the general population. True diversity comes from those who challenge the liberal orthodoxy to which Rudenstine gives voice. Harvard has no program to recruit them...
...leaves, leaps into view. He chuckles and grins as he dashes and twirls about the stage. The audience gasps with delight at the magical picture, captivated by the fairy-tale scene unfurling through pirouettes and arabesques before their very eyes. But this is not your everyday, run-of-the-mill Brothers Grimm tale winning the hearts of people all over the city. This week, the Boston Ballet is weaving Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" into the stuff that dreams are made...
Stout described her upbringing in a small rural community as the daughter of a tenant farmer and a mill worker, where she cherished a dream of "going to college, owning a house and having running water...
ANDREW LAMAR ALEXANDER was born in 1940 in Maryville, Tennessee, an aluminum-mill town beside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. His parents, both educators, saw that their son and two daughters were reading before they entered kindergarten. When Lamar was a schoolchild, his days began at 4 a.m., the hour he rose to deliver newspapers. He had piano practice at 6 a.m., plus after-school sports and choir practice. Weekends were for church and Scouts and chores...