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...accomplished membership and a significant vote of confidence on the University’s part—will prove equal to the challenging task before it. And as it begins its work, the rest of the Harvard community should take care to remember that HUPD’s controversial record is only one example of the larger race relations issues that have challenged this campus for years. The University, both by launching the HUPD review committee and by taking other meaningful steps—including, for instance, requiring incoming freshmen to complete readings on racial sensitivity—now seems...
...market conditions would be a key factor in determining whether the senator would push legislation to mandate a five-percent rate. Harvard’s healthy 8.6 percent gain, while significantly lower than in recent years, left the endowment larger than last year in real terms, even after the record payout. —Staff writer Clifford M. Marks can be reached at cmarks@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Nathan C. Strauss can be reached at strauss@fas.harvard.edu
...cheering delegates in St. Paul, Minn.) McCain said Palin was responding to criticism of her experience before becoming governor of Alaska and that "mayors have the toughest job, I think, in America." He also added, "Of course, I respect people who serve their community. And Senator Obama's record there is outstanding." When Obama was asked to react to Palin's comment, he said, "I was surprised by several remarks around community organizing and belittling it." But he agreed that mayors have some of the toughest jobs in America, noting "that's where the rubber hits the road...
...November 2004 Bush re-election campaign rally in Honolulu, Vice President Dick Cheney peppered his stump speech with the down-home expression, claiming John Kerry's tough talk about national security was nonsense. "He's trying every which way to cover up his record of weakness on national defense. But he can't do it. It won't work," Cheney said. "As we like to say in Wyoming, you can put all the lipstick you want on a pig, but at the end of the day it's still...
...risen to the top of the contemporary art world - in April, he broke a record for a mainland Chinese painting when one of his works fetched $8.2 on auction. His subject matter deals invariably with the consequences of modernity, depicting the forgotten faces of peasants in the Tibetan desert, or families displaced by the rising waters of the massive Three Gorges damn project. He's also done portraits of prostitutes in Thailand, and high school students in Boston. Says Morgan Morris, the Rome-based curator of this latest project: "Every time there's something coming to a head, he captures...