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...affirmative action admit. The only reason that I am at Harvard is because of my Black ancestry. I have no academic credentials. My high school grades were barely passing, my combined SAT score would not even make me eligible for NCAA competition. In fact, my admission was yet another tragic case of reverse discrimination--a talented white, Jewish or Asian student was turned away to make room for me in the name of "diversity...
...death itself, murder for money, is too commonplace a story among Floyd's friends to be entirely tragic. They simply miss the man, the power of his presence, his pageantry and showmanship. Living amidst violence, Wilson's characters display nothing like dismay or loathing, but a shared air of acceptance of their dangerous existence...
Harvard students, faculty and administrators will gather at 11 a.m. today in Appleton Chapel for a service of prayer and healing after the tragic murder-suicide in Dunster House last spring...
...Advising. Last year's tragic events in Dunster House brought into question the effectiveness of the resident tutor system in the houses. The College needs a system of joint accountability, where a student's problems will not go unnoticed if he or she doesn't initiate the first contact with an advisor or service...
...opera without a tragic ending. The sense of doom that begins gathering from the very first moments is suddenly, not quite persuasively, blown away in its final ones. This is not a movie imposition. It's pretty much the conclusion Price chose for his novel. Perhaps understandably. There is a human need to temper misery with mercy. And as we emerge from this exigent movie, we have some reason to be grateful for this last-minute softening of its spirit...