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...past literally envelops the space: the walls of the Sanctum are lined with rows of wooden plaques dating back to 1872. Names written in gold commemorate board members of each guard, the letters fading away with each older plate. To peruse these plaques along the perimeter of the room is to travel back in time through a chronicle of Harvard luminaries—L. Grossman, J. Atlas, T. S. Eliot, J. Ashbery, T. Roosevelt...
...professor of journalism at the University of Texas, told a small audience yesterday that Americans will continue to encounter difficulties in dismantling white privilege because many in the white community are afraid to discuss racial issues. The noontime discussion, which took place in the Phillips Brooks House Asssociation Parlor Room, attracted about 14 people to hear Jensen speak. “We’re used to thinking about the fears of people in subordinated communities, but there’s also fears that come from being white,” Jensen said. He added that sources of these fears...
...year plan for meeting the deficit, Smith made clear just how steeped he has been in the tumult of FAS finances over the past six months—and his listeners were both grateful and perhaps even pitying. “I think all of us in this room have enormous sympathy for the challenges you have faced in this past year,” said Government Professor Robert D. Putnam. “I don’t think any of us would want to change jobs with you.” But Smith, who kept his cool during...
...have to be modest and respectful. The new code fulfills this need," says Yevgeny Vyshenkov, deputy head of the Agency of Journalistic Investigations and a former St. Petersburg police detective. "But with it, we are not talking about law; we are talking about ethics, so it still leaves much room for improvement." (See pictures of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's patriotic youth camp...
...that room for improvement seems to encompass the entirety of Russian society, says Tanya Lokshina, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Russia office. "They have realized that if the police force, the army and the judiciary are not reformed, then the whole country is going to collapse...