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Although conflicts between the Black Students Association (BSA) and Hillel seem to have subsided this past semester, the discussion was an important, peaceful chapter in race relations at Harvard because of the "unusual candor and openness from members of both communities," according to Assistant Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree Jr., the panel's moderator...
...literature on nationalism, Greenfeld's Nationalism does not opt for the short compact theses of scholars such as Benedict Anderson (Imagined Communities) and Ernest Gellner (Nations and Nationalism) but rather delves into the particulars of five nations in a search for the driving forces behind nationalism. Greenfeld devotes a chapter each to England, France, Russia, Germany and America, and concludes that there is no one nationalism, but that there are "nationalisms...
...particular she distinguishes between civic-individual and ethnic nationalism. While either could conceivably give rise to liberal or authoritarian regimes, Greenfeld points out that historically, ethnic nationalism has shown a particular propensity towards collective authoritarian political systems. Greenfeld, in the last chapter of her book, portrays America as closest to the pure idea of a nation; it is a type of the civic-individual nationalism which laid the basis of individual liberty and liberal democracy. Unlike France, Germany and Russia, which are collective nationalities, Greenfeld holds that American nationalism never aspired to homogeneity...
...executive indecision (and possibly a last-minute change of heart), decided to stick with Leno, the man it installed as host of the Tonight show after Johnny Carson's retirement last May. The result will be a face-to-face battle between Leno and Letterman in the latest, liveliest chapter of the late-night wars...
...these victories are not the end of the Balkan horror story--just the close of another bloody chapter, with the worst still to come. If settlements are soft on Serbia, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic could cause a European crisis that will dwarf the current one, and put millions more lives at risk...