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...There's even some family history behind the inn. It's actually a converted shophouse that was built on a plot granted to the Tulyanond's ancestors by King Chulalongkorn (Rama V). The land has been in the family now for seven generations, and as you would expect, plenty of care has been lavished on the building that stands...
...told The Crimson.THE REAGAN REVOLUTION Carter’s presidency was significantly undermined by the crisis, which was still underway during the 1980 presidential campaign. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 emerged as a strong challenger to Carter for the Democratic nomination. Paul V. Holtzman ’83 says “there was certainly a lot of hometown support” for Kennedy at Harvard.But after Carter secured the Democratic nomination, many of Harvard’s intellectual heavyweights endorsed him, including John Kenneth Galbraith, Samuel P. Huntington, and Richard E. Neustadt.But...
...Just why African American students tend to perform below what prior grades and test scores would predict remains an unsolved problem.”DOUBTING DIVERSITYThe University defended its admissions policies that considered race a factor in an amicus brief it filed with other universities in the 1978 Bakke v. Regents of the University of California and again in the 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger.“The race of an applicant may tip the balance in his favor just as geographic origin or a life spent on a farm may tip the balance in other candidates’ cases...
...wooden predecessor: It was built of concrete and would play tough defense against visiting arsonists.WORLD ON FIREThe Harvard Stadium press box was not the only flash point that spring. On April 23, 1981, a 28-year-old Vietnamese immigrant named Nguyen Cheu hurled a Molotov cocktail at Long V. Ngo ’68, who was participating in a University forum on Vietnam. Ngo was unharmed, but the firebomb injured one of the policemen escorting the scholar to his car.The attack sparked a fierce debate between those who claimed Ngo was an apologist for the reeducation camps of an oppressive...
...Biochemical Sciences concentration into an honors-only concentration, sparking extensive discussion among professors and students. The changes in the biochemical sciences fifty years ago in some ways mirror the changes that the concentration is undergoing today. BACK TO THE FUTURE The Thimann Plan, named after Professor of Biology Kenneth V. Thimann who chaired the committee that reviewed the concentration, would take effect for the Class of 1959. Ninety percent of the Biochemical Sciences concentration was comprised of premeds, only around half of whom qualified for the honors track. As a result, according to a 1956 Crimson staff editorial, the change...