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A pioneer in her profession, Manson’s career in conducting has taken her through territory previously untraveled by her female counterparts. She cites her experience conducting the Vienna Philharmonic—an all male orchestra that did not even allow women to become full members at the time?...
“Teaching was not regarded as a sufficiently dignified profession for a Harvard graduate,” said Kozol, who attended the exclusive Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, Mass. While some classmates would teach at schools like his, “by and large teaching was unthinkable...
Morrison on Clinton, Redux Though the reason Toni Morrison gives for calling Bill Clinton the "first black President" sounds very nice ("I said he was being treated like a black on the street [during the Monica Lewinsky scandal], already a perp"), Morrison should reread the article she wrote for the...
For the past two decades, few politicians have publicly denounced special interests more often than John McCain. But for much of 2008, he has struggled to explain the fact that many of his advisers are current or former influence peddlers. The issue remained mostly a distraction until early May, when...
Everybody seems to believe it: The way the two parties nominate presidential candidates is a troubled system that needs “reform.”National political leaders and journalists gather today at Harvard’s Institute of Politics for a day-long conference to mull ideas for...