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...boast of its politically correct values and dedication to multicultural awareness and understanding, it ought to extend that sensitivity to every culture. To question whether Italian-Americans deserve that consideration—being largely considered, on everything from census forms to college applications, as generically “white??—or whether the mobster stereotype legitimately can offend is unfair. Certainly few questioned the rights of Native Americans and Muslims to cavil about The Salient or the Crimson sports page for their commentary. In this instance, however, the parody of The Godfather does not intend...
...behind another until this moment, shifted to the right quickly and almost imperceptibility, revealing that there are in fact two. Without regard for a definitive start or end, the curtain then fell, rising again as “No More Play” continued. “Black and White?? revels in such play between the evident and the hidden, the proper and the audaciously inappropriate. It is a dark game that questions the relationships we have with others and illuminates the artificial apparatus through which those relationships are mediated.While the “players?...
...like to foster greater diversity among a group that contains few minority members.Despite that push, Pfoho’s new House Masters will not be minorities. Nicholas A. Christakis, a distinguished professor who works at both Harvard Medical School and the College, and his wife Erika—both white??will become Pfoho’s new House Masters in the fall, the College announced last night. Some Pforzheimer residents said before yesterday’s announcement that they had hoped their new House Masters would similarly reflect the diversity of their House community, in particular, and that...
...Obama administration. News of Carter’s likely appointment was met with approval at the Kennedy School, where many of his colleagues pointed to both his Pentagon experience and his academic credentials as key assets he will bring to the job. Former deputy secretary of defense John P. White??who is now a lecturer at the Kennedy School—met Carter during their White House years in the mid-1990s, and expressed his enthusiasm for the pick in an interview yesterday. White explained that the Department of Defense needs someone in the top acquisition post...
...board member of the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and chaired the school’s Middle East Initiative. Joseph S. Nye, Jr., a former dean of the Kennedy School and founder of the Middle East Initiative, expressed strong support for White??s appointment. “John White has terrific background for this task...and he is a man of impeccable judgement,” said Nye, himself a former official in the Clinton Administration Defense Department and Carter Administration State Department. Both Sewall and White join a growing pantheon...