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...educating future leaders, it needs to actively recruit Latinos, or Harvard itself is going to become marginalized,” Fitzsimmons said. Latinos comprise 9.8 percent of the Class of 2010, a record number. Fitzsimmons cited the “resegregation of America by ethnic background and socio-economic background?? as a major obstacle to Harvard’s efforts to diversify. “We’re worried that there are kids out there who would be great at Harvard who are not going to make it out of high school,” Fitzsimmons said...
...Underwood of “Southern Writers Reconsidered” fame begged me to consider this a masterpiece of Southern literature. I think I fell asleep that day in Expos. The trajectory of the novel is simple: Jack Burden—a jaded newspaperman with a complex personal background??recounts the rise of rural populist Louisiana Governor Willie Stark and his decline into corruption. Ambitious Government concentrators and wannabe Faulkners melt for this stuff. Steven Zaillian’s new film adaptation of “All the King’s Men” must meet...
Highlights include “Reclining Nude”—which bears an uncanny resemblance to a chili pepper crossed with a tampon, dyed blue, and gently twisted, over a black and red background??and “Head from Hell,” in which a terror-faced ladydemon attempts to fellate a virile god as he stretches out by Hell’s shore...
Kacyvenski’s story is little short of legendary in the Endicott area. He, too, came from an immigrant background??of Polish ancestry—and had lived a difficult life before he was plucked out of U-E by Murphy and brought in to anchor the Crimson defense...
Long also showed a short slide show he had prepared of images of Shakir enjoying the company of her friends, as well as photographs of her many travels. Kagan said that Shakir’s many trips to India, and her cross-cultural background??Indian and American—inspired her to work to bring the two worlds together...