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...think that we’re under-informed is a matter of ignorance, not of willful neglect,” Benjamin said...
...Rieman Dance Center was signed over to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and a six-year transition lease was signed; now most of the time provided to prevent a devastating continuity crisis has been squandered. Administrators are finally taking action, but it may be too late. The long neglect of this problem shows subtle discrimination against women, since dancers are disproportionately female. Just as disappointing as gender bias, however, is the way in which this issue suggests a marked disrespect in the Harvard administration for both the arts and undergraduate education...
...quickly University President Lawrence H. Summers would act to ensure complete continuity in the program. And while the priority—or lack thereof—given to dance at Harvard is probably not due to any overt gender bias, the resulting effect will predominantly hurt undergraduate women. This neglect is discrimination “in effect if not intent,” to use a phrase with which Summers is surely familiar. Had the administration given this issue the priority it deserved back in 1999, the potential damage to dance could have been averted...
...support Clark's arguments that we take the time to "do the whole job the right way." Rushing into war will not improve the U.S.'s reputation in the Arab world. As Clark points out, we will be responsible for a postconflict plan to rebuild Iraq after years of neglect, self-inflicted damage and social repression. We cannot hope to understand the urgent needs and challenges facing the Iraqi people in a post-Saddam nation without the input of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and other countries in the region. Let's make sure we take the time, as Clark suggests. MARSHA...
...little inconvenient, then, that Gonzalez-Foerster says she's never thought of herself as a French artist at all. But perhaps that is only fitting. The organizers may have chosen his name as a symbol for French artistic innovation, but they neglect to point out that Marcel Duchamp died an American...