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...Laurent is a visiting scholar from Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Économiques at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. He and Jacques Le Cacheux co-wrote “Integrity and Efficiency in the EU: The Case against the European Economic Constitution...
Harvard civil rights expert Randall Kennedy urged a predominantly African American audience last night to be “radically individualistic,” while his colleague, legal scholar Lani Guinier, cautioned students against “selling out your soul” to self-interest. The two Law School faculty members, both black, joined a historian, a business professor, and an economist at a roundtable sponsored by the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) at which the scholars debated the notion of “acting white.” Kennedy, who is the Klein professor of law, said...
...street? Feng Wang Brussels Trade Pessimism for Peace "An island on the edge" [Feb. 20] reported that Sri Lanka is drifting back into civil war between the Sinhalese government and the Tamil Tigers after a four-year cease-fire. Your story recounted the amazement of former Johns Hopkins visiting scholar Dayan Jayatilleka as he witnessed soldiers' donating blood for Tamils in the days after the tsunami. He said, "It was a magical moment. Then it was gone." Despite such pessimism, Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict could still be prevented from returning to civil war if everyone would reject the hollow...
Tensions between University President Lawrence H. Summers’ supporters and opponents lingered at yesterday’s Faculty meeting, with one of the outgoing president’s critics, mathematician Wilfried Schmid, telling the pro-Summers Yiddish scholar Ruth R. Wisse to “stop poisoning the atmosphere at this University...
Wisse told The Crimson last week that anti-Semitism was “one of the factors at play” in the run-up to Summers’ resignation, and she made similar remarks to The Boston Globe. Yesterday, German literature scholar Judith L. Ryan, who sponsored a motion of no confidence in Summers’ leadership, said that she wondered if Wisse “realized how hurt I felt personally by the allegation of anti-Semitism...