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...class when she arrived at Harvard in 1956. But it was gender, rather than race, that seemed to distinguish her on campus, Alfaro said. In her time as a Radcliffe College student Alfaro said she recalled that there were professors who would rather cancel class than speak freely on certain subjects—such as the novel “Finnegan’s Wake”—in front of women...
...roommates I had, Ali and I started the furthest apart, yet she’s the one to whom I’m closest today. I’m certain it’s because of that kitchen...
...attitude of certain faculty members that Harvard wasn’t a trade school,” Carroll said. “Harvard was for the intellectual elite and studying computers was a trade, not an art or a science...
...they don’t have their name tag on, you could be walking by one of your best friends on the street and not recognize him,” he said. “There’s a certain sadness and poignancy...
...convictions.” President Nicolas P.S. Sarkozy thus clarified the “republican” principles that are supposed to undergird this law before the Council of Ministers on May 19: “We are an old nation, which is assembled around a certain idea of the dignity of the person, and in particular, the woman’s dignity, around a certain idea of living together. The integral veil that totally hides the face represents an attack on those values, which are so fundamental, so essential to the republican contract.” Sarkozy?...