Word: tools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Several students declined to be interviewed for this series, including the daughter of corporate-takeover magnate Henry R. Kravis; the daughter of performer and Academy Awards producer Quincy Jones; and the son of Harvard Overseer and Illinois Tool Works CEO John D. Nichols...
...when I look at the sum total of my experiences as a first-year, it is not difficult to see why Harvard's very name is its most effective recruiting tool. For there is a reason for that name. Harvard is "Harvard" because of the classes its students take, the experiences they share and the other students with whom they meet and interact...
...reading your article on the exhibition in Moscow of the gold treasures unearthed by Heinrich Schliemann [ARCHAEOLOGY, April 22], I was surprised that part of the article seemed to be a propaganda tool for Turkey to claim ownership. There was no ancient Turkey, and the ancestors of the modern-day Turks did not inhabit the Turkish coast, also known as Asia Minor, in ancient times. So do these artifacts truly belong to the Turkish nation? German and Turkish claims on the Trojan antiquities certainly ring hollow, particularly when you consider that the frieze of the Parthenon and other sculptures taken...
...malevolent Dr. Goebbels that we are not already painfully aware of. Whitewashing Adolf Hitler has been Irving's thing for years. Rather than enlighten people, as befits a historian, Irving has caused almost irreparable harm by giving the extreme-rightist, renascent Nazi and anti-Semitic movements a splendid tool to bolster their hatreds. HARRY CONWAY Middlebury, Vermont...
...education are glaring omissions: he ignores both the problematic history of affirmative-action programs at Harvard, and the decades-old legacy of dissatisfaction and frustration among its minority students. The report is not so much an assessment of "diversity and learning" at Harvard as a thinly disguised public-relations tool, garnering the liberal sympathies of Harvard students and faculty even as it masks the University's troubled past with affirmative action and student race relations...