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...think I can call you an American. Is he going to raise your taxes? No, but he might raise Sarah Palin’s! Did Obama pal around with domestic terrorists? Maybe when he was young, but that just shows what a tough kid he was. Is he black? Can you even see in color after eleven beers...
...keynote address on Friday afternoon, O’Connor defended the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling in Grutter vs. Bollinger, the landmark 2003 case upholding affirmative action at the University of Michigan Law School, but also emphasized the necessity of reducing the achievement gap between black and white students beginning in early education...
...achievement gap surfaces in early childhood and continues throughout high school, college, and adulthood, O’Connor said, citing a statistic that black men are more likely to be in prison at some point during their lives than to graduate from college. O’Connor described affirmative action as a “temporary bandage, rather than a permanent cure” to the racial tensions stemming from unequal representation in positions of power and leadership...
...Freischütz,” director Sam Helfrich presents a world that, like the acting, is never really sure what it’s supposed to be. He puts Agathe in a traditional German dirndl while Ännchen, in the same scene, wears a form-fitting black blazer and a pair of department store jeans. The chorus of village maidens, bodices laced up and hair braided like so many St. Pauli Girls, drink lager out of disposable frat-party cups. A rustic wooden barrel that looks like it might have been used in the original 1821 production...
...week’s debate on Latin American relations—sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies—and this coming week’s discussion on women’s issues in the upcoming presidential election—sponsored by the Association of Black Harvard Women, the Asian American Women’s Association, the South Asian Women’s Collective, Radcliffe Union of Students, and the Harvard College Women’s Center—prove that student groups without explicitly political missions are willing to and capable of engaging in provocative...