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...landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision a half-century ago, a unanimous Supreme Court struck down the infamous “separate but equal” racial policy. That policy of absolute racial separation had been decreed by the Supreme Court in the Plessy v. Ferguson case of 1896. However, that minimal legal acknowledgement of the humanity of African-Americans was never enforced. Their lives were separate but never equal, from the “colored” hospital wards where they were born to the racially-segregated graveyards where they were buried. As a confused six year...
Well, Dartboard hopes students are prepared for the starvation and thirst yet to come this reading period. While they’re struck by headaches and groaning stomachs, at least they can rest assured knowing that they have Dartboard’s sympathies—Lamont certainly won’t express the least bit of compassion...
...thing that struck me about the game was the passion of the South Korean fans. Their team only scored 10 baskets in 60 minutes, but when the Koreans scored, the crowd went nuts. I mean, bananas. The horns went off. A huge South Korean flag that was being held by five rows of people would shake furiously. Streamers, pennants and towels waved. An entire section of the crowd partied like it was 1996. And the Koreans lost...
Zoltanski said that on a trip back from a Kennedy School-sponsored career conference in Washington, D.C., she stumbled upon an accessories store in New York City. After buying some of the wares for a business she owns with her five sisters in Utah, she struck up a conversation with the owners and suggested they open a store in Cambridge...
Rodowick said that one of the biggest questions remaining to be answered as Harvard plans a graduate curriculum in film studies is how to balance the practice of filmmaking with its theory and criticism—a balance traditionally struck, if shakily, by the dual-natured VES department. In this, too, Rodowick—who Rentschler said earned “a sort of underground reputation among film studies people” with the experimental films he made as a student in Austin—has a broad range of experience...