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...African-American community has heard enough of the "gloom and doom" prophecies of life after affirmative action, said Abigail Thernstrom who, along with her husband, Winthrop Professor of History Stephan A. Thernstrom, co-authored America in Black and White: One Nation Indivisible...
...Stephen Thernstrom said he rejected the ideas proposed by Bobo and Reeves because what those scholars see as "signs of cancer...do not reveal cancer at work...
Racism in America is "only an ulcer, or whatever the correct medical analogy is," Thernstrom said...
...Thernstrom responded to Bobo's reference to the income gap between blacks and whites by noting that income studies do not take into account an important variable...
...family of Trang Phuong Ho '96 filed a lawsuit against Harvard University and several members of its advising system. Ho was murdered in May 1995 by Sinedu Tadesse '96, her Dunster House roommate. Tadesse hanged herself in their bathroom the day of the murder. Last summer, Melanie Thernstrom '87, a former Adams House non-resident tutor, enlarged her controversial 1995 New Yorker article and published a book about the incident, charging Harvard with allowing troubled students to fall through the cracks. When the book appeared, the University vigorously denied its assertions. Now Harvard is again on the defensive...