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...provide opportunities for multiracial students to share stories about their families. Harvard provides nice and cozy settings for multiracial students to explore their identities with one another, but its cold institutional blindness to the existence of these students indicates that our society has not yet parted with its traditional mindset. A student shouldn’t have to choose whether to deny her father or her mother.Sharlene Brown ’08 is a Social Studies concentrator in Winthrop House...

Author: By Sharlene Brown, | Title: A Forced Identity | 10/26/2005 | See Source »

...control of grain sales from private traders is widely seen as an attempt to reassert political control. One of the few slivers of freedom granted in recent years?the right to trade produce and household goods in the officially sanctioned farmers' markets?has already engendered a modest change in mindset. But there have been indicators of greater repression since last year, when the government outlawed cell phones for the general public shortly after setting up a national network. This year, officials at state-run trading companies were ordered to stop sending e-mails to China and to use faxes instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Hermit Kingdom | 10/24/2005 | See Source »

...weird these circumstances were,” he said. “Throughout high school, I’m just used to seeing a cornerback in man-coverage against Adam and knowing exactly where to go with the football.”Andrew is already in a different mindset with regards to his teammate-turned-rival, adding, “I always thought my brother could beat any corner that was put up against him, but now, me being that corner, I’m in a totally different mentality.” It almost turned out that the Berrys...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Brotherly Love: Berry Faces Twin | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

Well, truth be told, Harvard—or at the absolute minimum a significant part of its student body—remains a bigoted and close-minded place. The targets of abuse are all that are different, not the mindset that some are too unworthy, too unintelligent, or simply too annoying to grace our campus on even the briefest of visits...

Author: By Mark A. Adomanis | Title: A Surfeit of Snobbery | 10/18/2005 | See Source »

...prognosticator of an emerging fashion trend, Skinner was ahead of his time. But in his not-so-subtle implication that homosexuality is inherently childish, Skinner remains trapped in a (hopefully) bygone mindset...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Book Review: ed. William Kristol | 10/7/2005 | See Source »

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