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...attendees for a dinner at the Charles Hotel Ballroom to honor veterans from the Harvard Kennedy, Business, and Law Schools. The event—held for the third consecutive year—was attended by several hundred students and faculty, and included a steak dinner and a prayer from Reverend Peter J. Gomes...
...outlet for religious life at Harvard—akin to the Harvard Hillel or the Catholic Student Center at St. Paul’s Church—is unrealistic. Memorial Church is favored not only because of its place in the center of Harvard Yard, but also because of Reverend Gomes’s presence at major university events. Although Gomes has done an exemplary job of negotiating this role in the past 30 years and building Memorial Church to the dynamic institution it is today, it is time for the church to lose its denominational affiliation...
...recent address to the World Tamils Forum in London, the American civil-rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson reiterated the right to self-determination and the importance of an immediate ceasefire before any political solutions can follow. Similar expressions of concern uttered by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, as well as the president of East Timor and Noble Peace laureate José Ramos-Horta, remain meaningless to the government of Sri Lanka, which considers the systematic subjugation of Tamils the only solution to decades of racial tension...
...hear. Then he bent in even more, just waiting for me to speak. Eyes wide. So patient. He finally said, “We can sit with the Negroes if you want.”“No.”No, sir. You will hear Reverend Lewis’s sermon today. Even if it’s the rankest cow paddy that’s ever dropped out of a pulpit. I waved him forward. He waved me forward. I said, “After you.”He said, “You know where...
...honor 12 civil-rights pioneers the same year marking the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, the 100th anniversary of the founding the NAACP, the 80th anniversary of the reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the inauguration of President, and Harvard Law School graduate, Barack Obama is a worthy tribute. We ought to commend Professor Gates for his extraordinary efforts to honor these giants in this way, and I hope this letter brings him some measure of the thanks he rightly deserves...