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Lastly, we feel that the only way to combat such intellectual racism is by allowing the beliefs of truly qualified intellectuals to be heard...
...combat the image that Boston is inhospitable to people of color," Larsen says. "Whether we get the bid for 2008, or 2012, or 2016," it is a process that has seen the benefits already, it is good in itself...
...National Standards were subjected to peer review by hundreds of scholars and teachers as well as by focus groups that included members of the American Historical Association. According to one member of the policy-setting group, historian Elizabeth Fox- Genovese of Emory University, some of these meetings became academic combat zones. The project was "tremendously politicized by the professional associations," she says. In general, historians sought to de-emphasize political history while teachers were more sympathetic about keeping it. "Probably the biggest battle is between history and social studies. The social studies teachers ((who oppose any history requirements in lower...
...Clinton Administration is getting high marks for its recent foreign policy successes. Haiti has gone well, meaning no Americans have died in combat. In a place of zero strategic significance to the U.S., however, this falls more into the category of disaster avoided. In the two areas where we have the most abiding strategic interests -- fighting terrorism and nuclear proliferation -- the Administration has reacted by romancing the thugs. Offer the goodies, let the dictator pocket his gains, then hope for the best...
...disagree with the very premise of the staff's editorial, as it serves no useful purpose. We do not need to combat a growing sentiment among Harvard students that melanin equals superiority. Instead, the editorial serves only to aggravate racial tensions on a campus where past experience shows the balance to be a fragile...