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When she begins teaching this fall, Guinier will become the first black woman to be a tenured professor in the 181-year history of the Law School. About three years ago, Gottlieb Professor of Law Elizabeth Warren, who is of Native American descent, become the first woman with a minority background to be tenured...
...White House for what has come to be known as a "thinkers dinner." Even for Clinton, the Renaissance Weekend veteran, this was an eclectic gathering. It included 87-year-old political scientist Samuel Beer, who on his first visit to the White House shook hands with a newly inaugurated Warren Harding and years later wrote speeches for F.D.R.; lapsed conservative Michael Lind, whose literary credits include an epic poem on the siege at the Alamo; Dan Yergin, an energy expert who has lately been extolling the virtues of the global economy; and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, one of the first social...
From 1983-1994, Bailyn served as the director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History...
...recipient of this honor, Bailyn joins intellectual luminaries such as Robert Penn Warren, Saul Bellow, Barbara Tuchman and Toni Morrison, all of whom were chosen to deliver past Jefferson Lectures in the Humanities
...while ago when The Crimson used the word "normalcy" in a headline. One reader questioned the usage, asking whether the word "normalcy" is a proper one. It is. According to William Safire's "New Political Dictionary," the word first came into general use in the presidential campaign of Warren Harding in 1920 (the word itself dates back to at least 1857), and is generally accepted in newspapers such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. Since The Crimson's usage is backed up by an authority such as Safire (whose language, as his politics...