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...hour-long gathering marked the official start of Harvard’s 369th year, with speeches from Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby and a member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Massachusetts, in addition to Summers...
...unlikely target for assassination. A tall, somewhat fragile 64-year-old with a bushy gray beard, he was an ethnographer and anthropologist who earned his reputation as an academic specializing in Swahili studies and research on kinship. But he was also the leading expert on an indigenous Russian tribe - the country's growing band of neo-Nazis. As founder of the Group for the Rights of Ethnic Minorities (GPEM), Girenko had been a key adviser in 15 Russian ethnic hate-crime trials, including the current prosecution of six members of the St. Petersburg neo-Nazi group Schultz88 for violent assault...
Even as president of the Law Review, Obama was a talented politician. In the same article, Obama’s constitutional law professor, Laurence H. Tribe ’62, was quoted: “He’s very unusual, in the sense that other students who might have something approximating his degree of insight are very intimidating to other students or inconsiderate and thoughtless....He’s able to build upon what other students say and see what’s valuable in their comments without belittling them...
...He’s extremely smart,” Wilkins said. “I was talking to Larry Tribe the other day, for whom Obama was a research assistant. Tribe had a mathematical background in college, but when they worked together on a paper on the theoretical application of mathematics to law, Larry said he was blown away by Barack’s theoretical intelligence...
...much of the world soccer has long served as a form of ritual combat onto which neighborhoods, tribes and even nations could project their most passionate enmities. When Real Sociedad, the pride of the Basque country, comes up against Real Madrid, the soccer symbol of the Spanish crown, it's more than simply an athletic spectacle involving 22 men and a ball. And when a Republic of Ireland striker puts one past the England goalkeeper in an international fixture, the roar heard across the Irish Diaspora expresses a passion that long predates the game of soccer itself. But just...