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Iris, meanwhile, is married to Hampton, a fastidious African-American investment banker and a superb provider but one who is ever alert to racial slights, real or imagined, and who looks down his nose a bit at Iris, a bookish idler who can't even settle on a topic for her thesis. She surrenders to adultery in part because Daniel's love promises a refuge from judgments, expectations, even the workaday struggle to be black in a white town. Daniel and Iris are given to reckless sex--in his office, at her house when her husband is away...
...Supreme Court case has nothing to do with the kind of program Harvard is offering here,” Blum said. “[SVMP] is racially exclusive, whereas the University of Michigan’s admissions program is a racial preference question...
...part a good thing for our own Harvard, but I must admit that it is rather liberating to be in an environment where I don’t constantly feel the need to flash my politically correct credentials before engaging in a controversial political discussion—usually on racial profiling or affirmative action—or telling an off-color joke. While I certainly prefer our version of higher learning, Cambridge refreshingly lacks the sense of fatalism that abounds among many Harvard students and groups. People tend to be less sensitive—not insensitive, but certainly...
...rally, students criticized the administration’s response to racial tensions at the Law School before a group of more than 60 students—including members of the Black Law Students Association, Lamda and the Hispanic Law Students Association. Speakers called for the hiring and recruiting of more professors of color...
When Bush called Iraq part of the “axis of evil,” he was being practical, not imperialistic. By acknowledging that Saddam’s dictatorship is mired in bloody Baathist ideology and a hateful doctrine of racial superiority, Bush acknowledges that in the interest of peace Saddam must go. This is a difficult judgment to make, that sometimes a nation’s leader is so corrupted by evil that justice cannot prevail under his rule. Bush has reserved such a judgment only for the world’s most repressive dictatorships. The peace protesters...