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...After meeting as undergrads at the University of Oxford, raising a family in England, and working at the University of Chicago, the couple arrived in Cambridge in 2001. In addition to running their respective organizations, the couple brings their enthusiasm to the classroom, teaching courses ranging from Homi’s class on postcolonial literature and cultural citizenship to Jacqueline’s classes in human rights and refugee law. Though they tackle the issue from different angles, it’s this shared passion for rights that makes the duo tick...
...sense of ownership Harvard has over its sensible New England architecture that schools modeled after foreign designs can’t claim. Though the style may be utilitarian and moderate, it certainly is unique among other American colleges. Duke looks like Princeton, which looks like Yale, which looks like Oxford, but Harvard just looks like Harvard. That unique, redbrick identity is more precious than any sculpted New Haven bell tower...
...political beliefs? Is he not allowed to believe what he believes solely because the majority of people with brown skin disagree with him? These suggestions are absurd, but not nearly as appalling as her other suggestion: That Jindal is somehow forsaking his Indian heritage by attending Oxford and working for McKinsey. If these measures are the standards by which “race traitors” are judged, perhaps Sequeira should write an editorial denouncing Mohandas Gandhi or Barack Obama or the countless other Americans of color who are succeeding in the world on their own merits. WILL C. QUINN...
...just like to correct a tangential and perhaps unintended insinuation in her otherwise well-argued piece. She writes: “converting from Hinduism to Christianity as a senior in high school (and later asking his wife to do the same), attending Brown University and Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, working as a consultant at McKinsey…the only part of ‘Indian-American’ he embodies lies after the hyphen.” The implication that Mr. Jindal’s religious persuasion, educational achievement, or professional choices were anomalous given his Indian heritage...
...project is also unique in that other compilations of American lives do not include information about people who are currently alive, according to a release from the Oxford University Press, the encyclopedia’s publisher...