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...least debatable criticisms. And while West certainly isn’t unique among Harvard professors for his professional slumming (ask Marge Garber, fresh off a book about sex and real estate, or Alan Dershowitz, who took time off to defend O.J. Simpson and Mike Tyson), his relentless pursuit of celebrity and insatiable appetite for publicity sets him apart from the field—look at Friends of Cornel like P. Diddy and Mumia Abu-Jamal. That Summers chose to begin cleaning house with West might have been ham-handed and politically inept, but it wasn’t inconsistent...
This unhappy arrangement appears to reflect what economists refer to as “managerial slack.” In making decisions about outsourcing, administrators have not always put the interests of the University community above the pursuit of their own personal objectives. Thanks to the hard work of the janitors union and the Living Wage Campaign, University President Lawrence H. Summers is now attempting to achieve a cultural change...
When Barbara Haber first came to Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library fresh out of library school in 1968, women’s history was not a recognized scholarly pursuit...
Harvard’s successful pursuit of its sacred goal of excellence in education and research has dramatically weakened its ties with Cambridge. Its scholars are increasingly eminent, but the demands of the national and global stage draw them further and further out of touch with their sometime neighbors in Cambridge. This became painfully obvious in some of the public discussions about the CGIS project...
...toting crowd. Tension rose among the crowd and reenactors as the British gave an order for the Minute Men to withdraw. They did not move. The British advanced. And then a shot was fired. Volleys of fire criss-crossed the green and the Minute Men fled with British in pursuit. When the heavy amount of smoke cleared, eight colonials were dead. The Minute Men survivors returned to the green, the crowd gave a rousing cheer and everyone dispersed to pancake breakfast at Lexington’s local churches...