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...said that an investigation into Harvard’s past could not hurt, but that reparations are not warranted. “Harvard is less complicit” than other colleges, Schlesinger said, noting that much of the slave trade was based in and around Newport, Rhode Island. “I just don’t think it was as evident up here as it was at Yale or in Rhode Island. People connected to Harvard might have been making money from their estates in the Caribbean where they owned slaves, but they were not professional slave traders themselves...
...Take Back the Music” contest is to help change the way that artists and the public approach hip-hop, both in its creation and its reception. This year’s grand prize winners, Jennifer “Nesi” Chanesi of Rhode Island and Justin “Jae Guttah” McGibbon of Pennsylvania, won full scholarships to the 2008 Berklee Five-Week Summer Performance Program. Through prizes like these, the “Take Back the Music” contest hopes to assist the participants in developing their music and talent, further diversifying...
...year-old man named Isaac Royall established a sugarcane plantation on the island of Antigua in the West Indies. Royall made much of his fortune from the Atlantic Triangle Trade, which dealt in sugar, rum, and slaves...
...think it was the longest par four and it played straight into the wind, which made it even longer. You had out of bounds to the right and trees to the left with a green surrounded by bunkers.” Next weekend, the team will travel to Rhode Island for the final tournament of the year. —Staff writer Elizabeth A. Joyce can be reached at eajoyce@fas.harvard.edu...
...group of strangers, stuck together on an island with little or no hope of being rescued, are forced to work together and form alliances in order survive in their prison of paradise. From “Survivor: Micronesia” to “Gilligan’s Island” to that Tom Hanks movie with the eerily similar title, this recurring scenario may ring a few bells. Especially with the new season of “Lost” starting in just a few days, the basic premise of the Freshman Musical “Castaways...