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...political career on turning around the fortunes of a troubled city, Booker himself hails from a predominantly white, neighborhood in suburban Bergen County. His pedigree is glaringly elite: after graduating from Stanford, where he also took a master’s degree, Booker attended Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship before attending Yale for law school. In 2002, Booker made his first run for mayor of Newark, losing narrowly to a veteran machine politician who painted Booker as a “carpetbagger.” After briefly leaving politics to build a legal practice, Booker returned to Newark politics...
...interests, than with people in the same nation with different interests (note American liberals’ respect for French liberals and incredulity at American neoconservatives). The subculture is the new culture.It is this truth that humanities departments at Harvard (as well as other universities) fail to grasp, as their scholarship persists in imprisoning subjects within the iron cage of nationality. The History and Literature concentration, for example, starts from the idea that by studying a certain time and location, we can learn more about the culture people create. While this may have been true when the program was first designed...
...hand to stabilize Harvard’s core institutions.BACKING THROUGH LIFEPilbeam was born in Brighton, England on November 21, 1940, one month after the end of the Battle of Britain. After high school—where he was both a runner and an actor—Pilbeam won a scholarship to Cambridge. Though he initially planned to study medicine, his interests shifted to anthropology.In 1963, he crossed the Atlantic to attend Yale on a fellowship, though he returned to Cambridge within two years “immunized by America.”“I had caught the American...
...Iraq war in the fall, but will no longer be lecturing next semester. Richardson came to Harvard 27 years ago as a graduate student in government. In the 1990s, she taught the only undergraduate course on terrorism offered. She said she leaves the University with the hope that terrorism scholarship will continue to grow. “I would love to see Harvard invest more fully in courses on terrorism and supporting research on terrorism,” she said. —Staff writer Nini S. Moorhead can be reached at moorhead@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer June...
...moved his wife and two children to Chicago, where he was to serve as an associate pastor at Trinity during the two-year transition. By most accounts, Moss quickly energized Trinity, particularly with his easy, unself-conscious references from the pulpit to both hip-hop culture and deep biblical scholarship. However, in an August 2007 Cleveland Plain Dealer article, Moss seemed to foreshadow his troubles in Trinity. The generation gap plaguing such institutions, Moss said, is "a gap of language, values. It's a gap in the best tactics on how to transform the black community. It's an intellectual...