Word: justinian
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...internal disagreement with Charlesview residents. Harvard has offered to relocate the residents to two locations, but neither site has been fully embraced by Charlesview tenants. “Each day that passes further delays the creation of new homes for our residents,” Father Justinian Manning, the vice chairman of the Charlesview Board, said in a statement. “We are not ending our discussions with Harvard—we are just moving forward aggressively on a parallel track.” Nevertheless, an open meeting tonight in which residents and the Board planned to listen...
...addition, Douthat is unabashedly Eurocentric. It is a tragedy, he claims, that an undergraduate might leave Harvard’s walls “unable to distinguish Justinian the Great from Julian the Apostate.” Instead, they’re more likely to be familiar with propaganda in Nazi Germany, the role of the samurai in Japanese culture, or the Castro regime in Cuba. Of all the things to criticize, why complain that Harvard is too successful in attempting to expand the cultural and intellectual horizons of its students...