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Eliot University Professor Lawrence H. Summers, who spoke at last weekend’s symposium, said he believed that “the lack of diverse perspective?? is a serious problem because it denies progressives the opportunity to “sharpen and develop their arguments...
...dream without choking. They provoke jealously with their sexy accents, impeccable fashion, and disproportionate good looks. They poison classroom discussions by making cheeky references to the fact that they aren’t American and steal accolades from gullible teaching fellows on account of their “unique perspective?? and, even more nauseating, that they’ve “overcome adversity.” (Sure, Ghana is a developing country. But so is Louisiana...
...years into her tenure, Keohane has not stopped trying to pin down the details of her job description. She has used her outsider’s perspective??she is the only Corporation member without a Harvard degree—and the tumultuous events of her tenure as an opportunity to parse Harvard’s system of governance—to learn its ins and outs, and how to best navigate it. In the process, say friends and colleagues, she has become a quiet leader of Harvard’s most powerful governing body...
...Students sometimes focus on splitting legal hairs instead of promoting a consensual experience.”Even students quick to address the issue in a closed discussion of hypotheticals might not be so enthusiastic to talk about sexual assault in a real-life context. ‘A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE??“There’s only beginning to be a forum here at Harvard, because people don’t understand how pervasive the problem is,” said a male student who contributed a prose piece called “Darkroom...
...diseases in the public health profession, putting patient care before cost, according to Arthur Kleinman, Rabb professor of anthropology and Farmer’s adviser in social and cultural anthropology at Harvard. It is this strategy of “doing global health from a social medicine perspective?? which illustrates the “genius” of Farmer and PIH, Kleinman said. But the technique is expensive, he added. “Partners in Health’s budget has grown at a remarkable pace,” Marx said. “But the demand for?...