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...black history, believed that the Africana experience was worthy of inclusion within the annals of history, and he dedicated his life to validating the lives and achievements of black Americans. At a time when the black race was studied only as a burden to the nation, Woodson established the groundwork for the development of an analytical holism that justified the crafting of a methodology about the historical and cultural black experience. Still, the importance of his work did not lie latent in the study of the body historic. Its eminence existed in its willingness to question the tangential position...
...after years of planning, HLS has finally formalized joint degree arrangements with the economics and government departments, while also laying the groundwork for an innovative cooperative effort that will allow law students to graduate with a doctorate in health policy...
...months later, when officers at Guant??namo, frustrated by the lack of usable intelligence they were getting from prisoners, asked Washington to approve the use of more aggressive techniques than the 17 methods in the manual, the legal groundwork had already been prepared for a new age of harsher--and now legal--interrogation. In December 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld signed off on 16 additional measures for use at Gitmo, including stress positions, such as standing for long periods; isolation for up to a month; hooding during transportation and questioning; removal of clothing; and "exploiting individual phobias, e.g., dogs...
...influential politician Shinzo Abe said last week on TV. Meanwhile, one theory on why Kim's portrait no longer hangs next to his dead father's is that the son of "Eternal President" Kim Il Sung is slowly dialing back the regime's cult of personality to lay the groundwork for further reforms. Maybe Kim shouldn't sack that p.r. team after all. --By Julie Rawe. With reporting by Matthew Forney and Donald Macintyre
These small gestures turn “homosexual” from a concept into a person, and lay the groundwork for a more abstract discussion that doesn’t have to take the form of clashing ideologies or religious beliefs. Marriage amendments brought issues of sexuality to the table. Harvard students can and should use natural conversational openings to have engaged and engaging discussions with tangible impact on ideas about sexuality—so long as they resist the impulse to treat other positions as stupid...