Word: speaking
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...prominent writer and educator, Wise was invited by the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice to speak on his new book, “Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama...
...said that the President-elect chose not to speak about America’s prescient racial issues because of the political risks that they carry. “He would have immediately seen his political star heading in a different direction...
...crux of Faust’s speech was the argument that Harvard has already paid—and continues to pay—its social debts in kind, so to speak; that the work the University does in educating young people and contributing to the world’s research constitutes an unquantifiable sum far beyond what we might provide with a tax from the endowment. “If the endowment were smaller, we would have to do less,” she noted, and then connected this “less” to a string of unassailable...
...www.studentstogether.com—but it does note that Flores enjoys a “steady diet of love.” On a more serious note, the Web sites both discuss financial concerns that will be facing the UC in the coming year. Schwarts and Biggers speak soberly of the impact of the economic crisis on campus life: “It will be the job of the next UC President and Vice President to ensure that, even in the face of budget cuts, commitment to student life remains untouched.” Similarly, Flores and McLeod note that...
...gilded walls of Lancaster House could speak, they would surely have interrupted Monday's meeting there to rebuke Gordon Brown for failing to invite Angela Merkel. Britain's Prime Minister was joined at the elegant mansion in London by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and E.U. Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso to discuss concerted European efforts to tackle the economic downturn, but there was no place at the table for the German Chancellor...