Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...present form, the proposal by the prestigious architectural firm of Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown would turn the Union into offices, seminar rooms and a graduate student center, says Peter J. Riley, project manager for the HRE study. Memorial Hall would house a dining hall, restaurant, grill and general meeting spaces. Student organizations currently holding space in Memorial Hall would relocate to spaces left by departments moving into the humanities center...
...fact for students is this: a community does not learn to resolve the past's legacy of anger and injustice by ignoring the problem in the present. We cannot understand our neighbor if we never see him. That only 1.8 percent of Harvard's just under 400 senior faculty are Black is troubling, nearly outrageous...
...problem extends beyond the present. The lack of academic role models for underrepresented groups only guarantees the dearth of future academics, as admitted in the case of women by the Government department last month...
...fact for students is this: a community does not learn to resolve the past's legacy of anger and injustice by ignoring the problem in the present. We cannot understand our neighbor if we never see him. That only 1.8 percent of Harvard's just under 400 senior faculty are Black is troubling, nearly outrageous...
...credit, Fukuyama is grappling with important and difficult ideas. But his boldness misfires. To ruminate about "the end of history" in the present tense is the philosophical equivalent of that cheerful banality "Today is the first day of the rest of your life." Fukuyama is not really addressing the subject of history at all. He is looking through the wrong end of the telescope at current events, at a period barely twice his age (he is 36). Whether it is dead, dying or merely having a bad decade, Communism, in the sense that Fukuyama and almost everyone else thinks about...