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...found Luke Smith’s Valentine’s Day comments on the state of activism at Harvard very hard to take seriously (Comment, “Angry Activists,” Feb. 14). To imply that shaming the administration or attracting attention through rabble-rousing speeches is somehow incompatible with a stated “[vision] of social justice” (and therefore disingenuous) would be to ignore, for example, the successes made by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) in the period of time immediately following the sit-in. The “concessions from the administration?...
...Somehow, the ride still takes over four hours, so we ended up having to run from the Harvard Square T stop to get to Harvard Stadium in time for kickoff. Luckily, there were plenty of seats still available. Just like always, Harvard-Columbia wasn’t exactly breaking box office records, only it was worse now. There were about 1,000 other people in the stadium. Just like always, there were about as many stodgy alums in the seats as there were students. Only this time, I was one of the stodgy alums. It felt creepy, and I decided...
...that blacks need the crutch provided by race-conscious policies. For Swain, a deeply devout evangelical Christian, such beliefs are not academic. Now 49, she went from being a high school drop-out and single mother in rural Virginia to a Ph.d and a chair at a leading university. "Somehow, we've got to embrace an American national identity that pulls us together instead of dividing us into warring camps," says Swain, "perhaps through a renewed emphasis on the Judeo-Christian idea of a common creator and the brotherhood of man." It's an old-fashioned idea that could prevent...
...that DNA had a regular crystalline structure. By figuring out what that structure is, moreover, one might be in a better position to understand how genes work. Here was someone who appreciated what Watson already believed but which many scientists didn't yet accept: that the genetic code was somehow tied up in the physical structure of DNA. He realized he needed to understand X-ray diffraction and wanted to join Wilkins in London but never got an opportunity to ask him. So Watson wangled the next best position--a fellowship at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, where the director...
Armed with this crucially wrong information, the two began working in earnest. Conventional biochemistry had long since told scientists what DNA was made of: four types of organic molecules, known as bases--adenine, cytosine, thymine, guanine, or A, C, T and G--almost certainly strung somehow along a "backbone" of sugar and phosphate. The question was, How? "Perhaps a week of solid fiddling with the molecular models would be necessary," writes Watson, "to make us absolutely sure we had the right answer. Then it would be obvious to the world that Pauling was not the only one capable of true...