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...that the Kurds are victims of one of history’s greatest ongoing tragedies; they’ve been consistently tortured, killed, oppressed and forcibly unsettled for well over a century. And while there are certain similarities between the mistreatments of the Kurds and the repression of other minorities??the Armenians and the Jews come immediately to mind—the Kurds are unique in that they have no state of their own. They were promised a state in the Treaty of Sevres in the aftermath of the First World War, but Kemal Ataturk?...
...plan to work in international development—global economics is what they called it in the magazine,” Dell said. “More specifically, I hope to work with those who tend to be impeded by societal injustices—most notably women and minorities??helping them to break down structural barriers and take advantage of opportunities that they might not otherwise know about or have the support to pursue...
...lies the problem with Harvard’s value-neutral Core: Western society is better than its alternatives. The “dead white men” whom multiculturalists demean—as if syllabi focusing on the likes of Mark Twain and F. Scott Fitzgerald marginalize women and minorities??in fact encourage inquiries that invalidate the grotesque marginalization observed in other societies. Shakespeare, for example, challenges students to discover human truths transcending the perspective of any one ethnic group or gender...
...participants of this program range in age from six to sixteen, and were all referred to us from their local hospital as pediatric obesity cases. Also, all of them are minorities??black or Latino. Obesity among the young, especially young minorities has been steadily increasing. According to the Center for Disease Control, where some one in four white children are overweight today, for black and Hispanics the rate is one in three. And that blacks and Latinos are more often poorer than mainstream America does not help their situation...
...conservative advocacy groups had challenged as discriminatory a number of programs limited to racial minorities??including a MIT-based summer program for teens and the HBS program. MIT opened its program to non-minorities this summer, while Harvard said it was awaiting the Supreme Court ruling...