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Higginbotham and her new colleagues in Afro-American Studies say she is coming to Harvard to be a scholar, not to meet a quota...
...From "quota queens" to staunch meritocrats, no one can deny that race, once a question of principles, is now a numbers game. A recent Perspective article counted the representation of minorities among--MSA hyperactivists, hold your fire--not the Faculty (for the whole University has those figures memorized by now), but among toy dolls. Sleuthing in the aisles of Toys R-Us, Perspective found That only one of a dozen-or-so dolls was Black...
...fairly racist basis of immigration until 1965," said Eck, referring to the quota on immigrants from Asia lifted by the Kennedy administration. In researching her project on America's newest religious communities, Eck plans to visit Buddhist groups in Los Angeles and the annual Durga Puja festival in New Jersey, which honors a Hindu god- dess...
...Patrick appears to be a `stealth Guinier.'" said Bolick. "He has no paper trail but is part of the same pro-quota chorus that produced Lani Guinier...
...mildly, a bit of a bore. For Freud, despite his quota of failed pictures (failed, however, by standards to which most living artists don't aspire), is the best realist painter alive. To watch the development of his work -- even in the abbreviated form of one show -- is like watching a wily cock salmon compelled upstream by instinct, against the cataracts of modernist history, following its desires. Most of the major stylistic events in art since 1900, starting with late Cezanne and going on through Cubism to abstraction in its various forms, have had no apparent impact on Freud...