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Fifty years after becoming one of the first black students to attend Little Rock Central High—opening the door for the integration of Southern schools—one civil rights pioneer said she now feels “shame and horror” at the state of today??s public education. “There shouldn’t be such a thing as higher and lower education,” said Minnijean Brown-Trickey, 65, one of the “Little Rock Nine” widely covered in the media in 1957, speaking...
...troupe, most can afford a cheap television set to access network programming. And among the slough of sitcoms and game shows on television stands “So You Think You Can Dance,” a program that features an interesting cross-section of today??s most skilled choreographers, dancers, and styles. There are little to no performances—even less-so, television shows—that feature hip hop and waltz in the same segment; that hold krumping and the contemporary lyrical dancing to the same artistic standards, forcing dancers and viewers to value them...
...short, Brazil is a huge, diverse, and active country. Its appropriations and contradictions are sometimes amusing, sometimes surprising, and always fascinating. Brazil is dealing with many of the same issues as the U.S. is today??except it was ruled by a military dictatorship until just over 20 years ago. As Brazilians love to say, “é complicado” (it’s complicated...
...according to John G. Palfrey, Jr. ’94, who serves as clinical professor of law and executive director of the Berkman Center, Benkler’s most important work investigates the impact of the internet on democracy in today??s society...
...Today??s Harvard is also one where the students are demonstrating an extraordinarily high sense of moral and ethical responsibility even before they leave the confines of the Ivory Tower. In the past five months, I have had the honor of meeting with students who spend their spare time preparing immigrants for citizenship, teaching in the Boston public schools, and working on homelessness policy. Today??s Harvard students are aware of and engaged in the broader Boston community in a way that I believe exceeds the standards we set in the 70s and 80s. Harvard should...