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...Thornton and Halle Berry in the 2001 movie Monster's Ball have become more common. "That's the most potent development," says University of Alabama family-studies professor Nick Stinnett, "because it means a far wider portion of society now has a personal stake in doing away with the racial barriers that still exist here...
Bernard-Henri Lévy, France's most irrepressibly public philosopher, says he's always been fighting the same adversary: "the will to purity," whether political or racial. In a long career of public causes, he has seen that ill will on the faces of Nazi sympathizers, the Soviet nomenklatura, Pakistani generals fighting against Bangladesh's independence, and Serb paramilitaries bent on ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. Now he sees it in militant Islam - which he believes is perilously close to acquiring nuclear arms. Lévy's latest book was not prompted by political theory, but brute fact: the murder...
...warned that the efforts to achieve tolerance towards racial and ethnic minorities sometimes leaves others open to criticism—but added that Harvard has not succumbed to this tendency...
...brief stand-off at Woodbridge Hall (Yale’s Mass. Hall-equivalent) two Fridays ago. The anti-Muslim invective allegedly left on Lo’s door rightly invited serious concerns about racism on campus. CSY says it’s now working on the broader problem of racial and ethnic insensitivity—a problem it claims is endemic to the administration and the student body. This may be an initiative long overdue, but we still have to address how the discussion of our foreign policy became so debased so quickly. If this campus indeed has thugs easily...
Last month, representatives from two conservative advocacy groups threatened to file a complaint against Harvard Business School (HBS) if it does not rectify what they called racial discrimination in an affiliated program. The Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP), which the groups targeted, is a one-week seminar for 60-80 college juniors, and only admits students from racial or ethnic minorities. In recent months, both MIT and Princeton have bowed to pressure aimed at similar programs. But HBS must not allow itself to be bullied by the prospect of a lawsuit into changing a program as vital...