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...Christmas Day, a season markedly less frivolous but no less considerable than that of the summer blockbuster. And for all the high expectations, the flick delivers. In fact, it not only makes for an entertaining two hours, it’s actually intelligent. Sure, the eponymous debates are pretty specious??€”you could make a drinking game out of the contradictions in the Harvard debate team’s speeches alone—but I suspect this is a calculated trade-off. After all, we’re talking about a film here, not a philosophy paper. Even...
Harvard has its own overzealous lawyer, Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree, who has announced his intention to sue Harvard and other universities for reparations for slavery. The claim is not only morally specious??€”primarily because of the distance in time from the crimes in question and because of the lack of anyone identifiable who was even indirectly complicit—but also hatefully disingenuous in its target of Harvard, an institution that through affirmative action has benefited thousands of living African-Americans, and whose Afro-American studies department is the world leader. More important...
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