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Harvard has driven away another brilliant African-American professor, Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 (Online Breaking News, “Harvard Loses West to Princeton,” April 12). The truth is that Harvard College is still a stronghold of institutionalized racism, which has reluctantly allowed some black scholars to exist in its midst. I can say that because I spent four years of my life on the campus. In the 1960s and 70s, we African-American students had to take over Harvard’s main administration building in order to persuade...
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Whitton relies on her family for support and calls her mother and father back in California her “stronghold...
...more trouble than they had bargained for. At battle position Ginger, Grippe found hundreds of enemy fighters waiting. "They came at us with mortars, RPGs, and light and heavy machine guns," he told TIME. "From a blocking mission, it turned into a reconnaissance force on an al-Qaeda stronghold." Grippe radioed to base for reinforcements and was told that none could get through the hail of fire. He was ordered to hold out until after dark, when evacuation would be possible. It was still only 7 a.m. Grippe's team spent the day fighting off Taliban and al-Qaeda incursions...
Meanwhile, it has been suggested that the host city “must be committed to fairness and inclusion, have a strong union presence and have a history of respecting workers’ rights.” As a Democratic stronghold, Bostonians have a tradition of supporting worker’s interests...