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...living under the assumption that race does not reflect potential, then the glaring statistics suggest that we are doing something wrong. Race today still seems to be a pervasive force in our lives, whether dictating how Harvard students are treated or reflecting access to education in America. Harvard is the world leader in higher education. For that reason, Harvard must set a precedent for how race is addressed at the institutional and educational level...
...were operating at low financial margin, so we could broadcast things that we liked as opposed to those that would make it easier to sell advertising,” Menninger recalls. “I can’t believe that the station hasn’t changed to reflect a wider listening audience, but then students tend to be at the leading edge of good ideas. I’m sure I must have left before this honeymoon is over...
...Sides of a Wall I concur with Simon Robinson that walls reflect a lot more about the people who build them than the people they are meant to keep out [May 7]. Although the idea for walls on national borders arises out of concern for security, walls are not the right way to keep people out. They are rather passive and superficial in the sense that terrorists who want to enter a country will do so at any cost, but people with good intentions, such as businessmen who want to invest there, will be thwarted and will turn...
...Sides of a Wall I concur with Simon Robinson that walls reflect a lot more about the people who build them than the people they are meant to keep out [May 7]. Although the idea for walls on national borders arises out of concern for security, walls are not the right way to keep people out. They are rather passive and superficial in the sense that terrorists who want to enter a country will do so at any cost, but people with good intentions, such as businessmen who want to invest there, will be thwarted and will turn...
...movie in a friendly town (Vegas, Chicago) or familiar genre (caper, Western, gangster movie) and apply to it a bit of the ad-lib roguery they brought to their nightclub gigs. The slapdash nature of the script, performances and production was meant to reflect the informal, what-the-hell, let's-pretend-we're-having-a-ball impulse that led to their making. These were movies that loosened the tuxedo tie and the tongue to provide an intoxicated if not intoxicating diversion. They were loosy-goosy for the time, and instantly irrelevant. Marijuana would soon replace alcohol as the younger...