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...Knowing about the specifics of different [judicial] models will encourage the search of dialogue among legal scholars from different systems of adjudication,” Mendes said. After his talk, he answered questions from students and professors about issues of affirmative action, health care, social, gender, and racial inequalities. “We are now celebrating 20 years of the enactment of the 1988 Brazilian constitution. This is actually something quite remarkable,” Mendes said, noting that Brazil is currently experiencing the longest period of democracy in its history. “The constitution was enacted...
...Harvard prides itself on its diversity—economic, racial, social, geographical—but it remains intellectually segregated. It’s not what conservative commentators seem to imagine—a bastion of liberal professors force-feeding radical opinions to a naïve student body. It’s simply that the tacit assumption, in the classroom as well as outside it, is that everyone is liberal. Why is this? Perhaps because Harvard is located in the People’s Republic of Cambridge in the heart of blue Massachusetts: the sort of community whose Oktoberfest parade...
Agenor also said she’d hoped the health care advisors would discuss America’s racial and socioeconomic health disparities. Salganicoff’s opening slides placed an emphasis on the underserved, while the debate did not address similar issues of health and equality, Agenor said...
...resent David Von Drehle's implication in "The Limits of Race" that whites who vote against Obama do so for racial reasons [Oct. 20]. Obviously race influences some voters, but what about blacks? Certainly some African Americans will vote for Obama because he is black. How many of these voters will cancel out white voters who vote for the wrong reasons? James C. Perley, LITTLE SIOUX, IOWA...
...used to say, “act like you’ve been there.”In the actual debate McCain exhibited the same uncontrolled behavior. While he battled hard, Obama remained cool and reserved. For instance, McCain looked rather emotional when describing John Lewis’s racial remarks about his rallies. McCain complained, “That, to me, was so hurtful.” Obama took the tough Reagan-like stance: “I think the American people are less interested in our hurt feelings during the course of the campaign than addressing the issues...