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...Wednesday, the Harvard University scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. appeared on Oprah Winfrey's celebratory post-election special. After learning the news, Gates says, "we jumped up, we wept, we hooped and hollered." It is hard to overestimate the historical significance of the election of the first black U.S. President. For many blacks, and certainly for much of the country and world, Obama's victory is an extraordinary step toward the redemption of America's original 400-year-old sin. It is astonishing not least for its quickness, coming just 145 years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation...
...field. From astounding football ability to academic prowess, Berry has been a standout his entire Crimson career. Now the entire country will know of Berry’s talents as he joins the ranks of Peyton and Eli Manning in earning the National Football Foundation (NFF) National-Scholar Athlete Award. With the award, Berry will be one of 15 finalists who are in contention for the Draddy Trophy. Often called the ‘Academic Heisman’, the trophy goes to the American college football player with the best combination of academics, community service and on-field performance...
Among the other Harvard names being floated for top positions, Samantha Power, a scholar of genocide based at the Harvard Kennedy School, is one of the most interesting, Burns said...
Since the country's colonial days, concerns of voter fraud have inspired ever-more complicated ways to cast one's ballot. Depending on where you live, you may vote tomorrow with a lever, a punch card, a marker or a touchscreen. As election scholar Andrew Gumbel notes, the U.S. has been both a "living experiment in the expansion of democratic rights" and a "world-class laboratory for vote suppression and election-stealing techniques...
...Toobin, a former Crimson sports editor, named Law School Dean Elena Kagan and constitutional law scholar Cass R. Sunstein ’75 as candidates in line for high-ranking posts in the Justice Department or for an appointment to the Supreme Court...