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...debate over Summers’ comments has opened up some space for the Harvard Faculty—and for all of us who belong to this community??to petition for redress of legitimate grievances. History will judge those who govern this institution by whether they transformed it in response to those grievances, or whether they blindly continued down a path that makes a mockery of the values and commitments of an open academic community...
More important than the procedural flaws in Wegner’s lottery, however, is the conflict between his and the community??s values. Harvard institutes shopping period at the start of each semester in order to give students the rare and vital opportunity to develop their academic interests. It is the only time that the uninhibited student, not yet bogged down by pressing deadlines and class responsibilities, is encouraged to experiment with new classes. Rather than promote intellectual inquiry, Wegner’s lottery contradicted the spirit of shopping period, undermining the enriching academic experience it is meant...
...complete monopoly on black folk everywhere. In his famous “Handwriting on the Wall” speech, Garvey declared, “Whether it is Africa, or America or Europe, the world is cold and indifferent to the Negro.” In light of the global community??s refusal to forgive the debts of predominantly black developing nations, to fulfill its promised contributions to fighting AIDS, to meet or even seriously consider the millennium development goals to eradicate poverty and hunger, to intervene in the atrocities of Rwanda or Darfur, or to merely report...
Ferreira, 49, who lives with his daughter in Cambridge, spends about 20 hours a week in Loker offering lessons to members of the Harvard community??all free of charge...
...have already? Why did he abandon the mission in Liberia? Where is the democratic institution building in Haiti? What about military intervention in Sudan? This also, of course, brings to the forefront concerns about how readily Bush violated Iraq’s sovereignty without the support of the global community??a trend that could not continue if this larger mission were to ultimately be successful. For some, Bush’s troubled relationship with the truth and his checkered past in the aforementioned regions are enough to destroy any faith they have in his intentions or willingness...