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...that the era when the highest position most African American candidates could hope for was to represent a majority-black congressional district or become mayor of mostly black city is nearly behind us. It makes no sense for established black leaders to resent the young for positioning themselves to surpass their elders. It's called progress. Ford is not trying to become a leader of black America. He is trying to be the next U.S. Senator from Tennessee in 2006 and maybe even run for President someday. That means being able to win the support of both black...
Currently, class reunions encourage alums from the College, Law School and Business School to surpass the donation records set by classes from previous years. This is a highly lucrative means of raising money, but in the past, alums could only receive so-called “class credit” for contributions to their own schools. Thus, for graduates of the College, Law School and Business School, there existed few incentives to contribute to Harvard’s less financially-sound schools—and so the rich schools just kept getting richer. The policy hurt the smaller schools, which...
Sometimes change is a good thing. Following several consecutive consistent but relatively average seasons, the Harvard men’s basketball team looks to surpass its .500 finishes of the past and climb the Ivy League rankings in its 2002-03 campaign...
After experiencing March Madness last year in the Crimson’s first-round loss to North Carolina whetted the Harvard’s appetite for national success. Heading into the 2002-2003 campaign, the Crimson, armed with a crop of hungry young freshmen and celebrated veterans, looks to surpass last year’s glory...
...rivalry and act as if we truly are the second best school in the nation. We can blithely ignore that there are a number of schools—such as Stanford, Princeton, MIT and Cal Tech—which we “Cantabs” would have to surpass in quality of students, faculty, location and facilities to even be second to Yale...