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...discussing. As for the choice of Commencement speaker, Mansfield cited three recent speakers--Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Philippine president Corazon Aquino and former president of Ireland Mary Robinson. "They were three women, three liberals and three mediocrities," he said, suggesting that because of her conservativism, Margaret Thatcher might have been overlooked...
...MARGARET THATCHER She offers to donate her handbags to Cambridge, but they say no. Must not have had shoes to match...
...politically correct like to avoid absolute judgments, but Margaret Thatcher, Mansfield's recommendation for a future speaker, has surely had a greater historical impact than the three cited selections combined. Of course, today's students, immune to right-wing propaganda, no longer think winning the Cold War was all that important. Nor was rescuing Britain's ailing socialist economy a sufficiently compassionate enterprise to earn Maggie their respect. Still, in the spirit of pluralism, maybe Harvard should invite that heartless statesperson to say her piece...
This series--along with a conference currently being organized by Phillips Professor of Early American History Laurel Thatcher Ulrich titled "Gender at the Gates"--shows an increased interest in the state of women in the world and at Harvard...
Comparing Thatcher to recent honorees, Mansfield said he saw "a sorry contrast...