Word: taboo
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...appeared at the final meeting of “Morality and Taboo,” a course inspired by the furor over Summers’ presidency that led to his resignation last year. The class has examined why some concepts and ideas are considered improper in certain public arenas...
...course heads, Summers is a martyr of taboo within the ivory tower. They publicly defended Summers after he suggested, at an economics conference nearly 28 months ago, that “intrinsic aptitude” could partially account for the dearth of female scientists at elite universities. When the remarks became public, he faced a wave of condemnation at Harvard and across the country...
...topic was too taboo for the competitors in Tuesday Magazine’s freestyle rap battle “Outwit.” The event, which was co-sponsored by WHRB’s The Darker Side, drew both the ghetto fabulous and the desperate wannabes to convene in Ticknor last Saturday night. The battle was like “American Idol” but with a hell of a lot more street cred. Six contestants took part in the veritable verbal skirmishes before an excitable crowd in three rounds. The contestants went head-to-head exchanging heated personal attacks...
...topic was too taboo for the competitors in Tuesday Magazine’s freestyle rap battle “Outwit.” The event, which was co-sponsored by WHRB’s The Darker Side, drew both the ghetto fabulous and the desperate wannabes to convene in Ticknor last Saturday night...
...meaningful dialogue with sensitivity was one of her foremost concerns for “Saturday Night.”“You have to be careful not to exploit people’s stories,” Homaifar said. “It’s such a taboo issue that you’re representing, that it’s very easily sensationalized.”FROM DUKE TO HARVARDHarvard will be the second school to publish a “Saturday Night.” Monica E. Lemmond, now a student at the Medical School, founded...