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Shortly after he was chosen to be the 26th president of Harvard, Neil L. Rudenstine invited Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., the chair of the Afro-American studies department, to lunch...
...strength of four goals late in the second half, the Crimson attack found the back of the mesh eight times, but in a repeat performance of last season, the Maryland offense didn't skip a beat, knotting 21 goals in another offensive explosion...
...that the Justices have considered a school prayer case, and legal analysts are predicting a profound impact on school systems nationwide. What separates this case from the 1992 case, say the defendants, is that football games are a voluntary, extracurricular activity that those offended by prayer are free to skip. In addition, they say, Santa Fe students vote on whether to have the prayer. The opponents say that forcing students to choose between being subjected to a religious event and facing potential ostracism by not attending a game in a football-crazy community is inherently unfair...
Staff for the vice president were less circumspect about the relationship between their candidate, and another high-profile black intellectual at Harvard, Henry Louis "Skip" Gates...
...With veteran status, Carlos considers himself a sage of the streets. He has picked up some wisdom along the way as well as countless intriguing stories. Over the years, he claims to have accepted fares from Harvard notables: Neil Rudenstine, Alan Dershowitz, Henry Louis "Skip" Gates and Stephen Jay Gould, and real-world gurus like George Will, a columnist for Newsweek. Carlos describes Rudenstine as "very humble, very down to earth," and Gates as "a real nice, fun guy, a Democrat." He recalls driving Gould to Logan airport, and having "a great conversation about creation versus evolution science...