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...Newton on New Year’s Day when the call comes in: a surprise press conference. In a characteristic show of overzealous journalism, we drop all our plans for the day. Larry Summers has blown his hand, a department (Af-Am) is in uproar and now Jesse Jackson has descended on fair Cambridge. The conference is at 12:30. It’s 12:30 and we reporters are 12 miles away. We have negative time...
With the key to his—no, make that his newly-licensed younger sister’s—car, off we go, urgently brainstorming questions. He struggles to hold to hold back a SNL Jesse Jackson imitation: “Respect me, protect me, do not neglect me.” She struggles to get down the questions she’s sure they won’t have a chance to ask. He starts humming “I’m sorry Ms. Jackson.” Off to see Mr. Jackson—is this...
While Summers may have dropped the ball on diplomacy, West and his distinguished colleagues appear to have dropped the ball in two major respects. First, it diminishes the standing of black scholars at Harvard when media seekers such as Jesse Jackson are brought in to presume to mediate what should have been a private dispute. If brilliant Harvard educators, including Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree, cannot exercise sufficient negotiation and conflict management skills to resolve a simple communication dispute without bringing in Jackson—whose own moral authority is now in question—then what message...
When forecasting trends, sometimes looking backward is the best way to look ahead. TIME's James O. Jackson examines the perils of prediction...
...occupational hazard in Hollywood: make a film based on real-life events and, predictably, you're going to have people grousing over inaccuracies. So it is with the latest crop of fact-based dramas. A bigger mystery: what Tolkien fans did before they had Peter Jackson's movie to pick apart...