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Harvard University provided Sinedu Tadesse '96 with inadequate advising and medical support, Melanie Thernstrom '87 alleges in her new book about the 1995 Dunster House murder-suicide, Halfway Heaven, which hit bookstores in late August...
...Thernstrom, a former English department Faculty member and Adams House non-resident tutor, alleges that the University also attempted to whitewash the tragedy, "to protect and promote its distinguished reputation at the cost of its own student body...
...After the Dunster House deaths, the news office could have adopted the line that every institution has troubled students and Harvard is, alas, no exception, instead they chose to propagate the idea that the student didn't appear to have any troubles and the tragedy had, therefore, no explanation," Thernstrom says in the book, which is an expansion of an earlier article she published in The New Yorker last June...
...task is daunting, but even as Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom's new book upends liberal dogma on racial progress, several other white authors, all liberals to some degree, are making their own fresh attempts to grapple with America's racial dilemma--specifically, with the equivocal attitudes of whites toward African Americans. Unfortunately, none of them offers much in the way of innovative prescriptions...
Incessant repetition of myths does not, of course, make them true. Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom demonstrate in their newly published book that the economic rise of blacks was in fact more rapid in the '40s and '50s than in later decades...