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...alleged racial slurs have pitted Durham, a town that is 44% black, against Duke, where only 11% of the undergraduate students are black. A woman called 911 the night of the party and said a man called her a racial epithet as she passed by the house where the alleged rape took place...
...diversity of perspectives. Columbia has been nicknamed the “Bir-Zeit on the Hudson,” after the Palestinian educational institution. We are content enough with the “Kremlin on the Charles” nickname of yesteryear to prevent us from desiring a new epithet. Islamic Studies as a field of scholarly inquiry is as virgin as it is significant. Textual analysis of important Islamic texts remains for the most part an untapped and sometimes even dangerous scholarly pursuit. Once given the resources it deserves, the field has the potential to facilitate a much-needed...
...herself through Harvard, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, 67, was officially declared the winner last week of a presidential runoff in her native Liberia. She spoke to Claire Soares about her plans to heal the war-torn country--where the rate of unemployment is 80%--and how she earned the epithet Iron Lady...
...says he has now been branded a "black hand" by provincial party officials?the epithet used for labor leaders of the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square. His fall from favor underscores the frictions that accompany China's uneven efforts to modernize. While the country has progressed economically, its authoritarian government has not made the same progress in building open and accessible political and legal institutions. Concerned about a rise in mass protests, Beijing continues to promise change. An annual meeting of the party's Central Committee last week concluded with calls for "social harmony" and a commitment to "ruling...
...people attended a fraternity party with their faces painted black, provoking a university investigation, the Cavalier Daily reported. Then, on Feb. 26, 2003, Student Council presidential candidate Daisy Lundy, who is black, had her head slammed against the steering wheel of her car while her attacker shouted a racial epithet, according to the Daily. In response to the incidents, the university created a commission to investigate issues of race and college and community life in September 2003, Wood says. The Commission on Diversity and Equity issued a report in 2004 and its recommendations are posted on the university?...