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...Greenwich Associates, the financial consulting firm where Glick worked for 10 years before joining Credit Suisse First Boston, former colleagues remembered him as driven, straightforward and not afraid to speak his mind...
This is an anxiety that I did not expect, and it competes not only with the more positive sense of satisfaction I have about my Harvard experience but with the seemingly truer, more straightforward anxiety that I did anticipate. There was a moment at the end of my sophomore year when I foresaw the pain that graduation would bring. In a half-empty room strewn with boxes during spring exam period, in an almost mystical moment of clarity, I saw the end—I realized that I would have to leave what I was beginning to love, that...
...closely districts look, the less transparent the diagnoses. Beginning last year, Texas' Austin Independent School District began requiring principals to track discipline data by race to discern if any specific teachers were using a heavier hand with black students. The answer was yes, but the reasons were far from straightforward. Cornel Jones, principal of Austin's Oak Springs Elementary School, does not blame racism but chalks the problem up to "cultural misunderstandings" between his white teachers and the 97%-minority student body. One insidious source of confusion: When a teacher scolds a black or Latino student for a simple matter...
Given that race is a useful fiction, why has it been at the center of some of the most contentious debates on campus this year? It is far too easy to construe straightforward differences about politics or academic policy in terms of so-called racial bias. At any great university, scholars are divided by their different opinions and views. Those differences of opinion very rarely occur because of differences in skin color or facial features. Nevertheless, some see race bias in nearly every conflict...
When Pat Metheny took the stage at the Orpheum Theatre on April 14, he set the stage for an evening of unadorned music. Unassumingly dressed under a tangled mat of hair, Metheny sat on a monitor speaker, hunched over his guitar and eased into a straightforward, honest folk ballad...