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...audience of academics and activists gathered last night to revisit an age-old controversy triggered by politician and former Harvard professor Daniel Patrick Moynihan??s 1965 report on the source of poverty in the black urban community. The Moynihan report was leaked to the press during his tenure as U.S. assistant secretary of labor, prompting an uproar because of its claims that the “tangled pathology” and fragmented structure of black families led to high poverty rates among urban blacks. The three-day conference, “The Moynihan Report Revisited: Lessons and Reflections...
...fact, in 1976 he landed a job on Daniel Patrick Moynihan??s campaign in his bid for the U.S. Senate seat from New York. The Catholic son of a sanitation worker and a truck driver, Russert had already worked his way through John Carroll University and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law as a sometime cab driver and pizza...
...don’t card—lucky me. Peggy “John’s Sister” Kerry hesitantly makes the rounds, looking confused as she speaks with prominent Democratic fundraisers and MoveOn.org execs. Apparently bewildered, Kerry sticks close to her guides, the late Sen. Daniel Moynihan??s daughter Maura Moynihan ’79 and her curly-haired son. (I chat with Maura briefly; she’s attractive, friendly, bordering on perky. It turns out she brings in lots of money for the Democratic Party, and even went to Harvard! Do you have...
...Moynihan??s prolific writings on race and politics in America made him a controversial yet widely-respected figure in politics and academia...
Sometimes, though, with unpopular speakers, a little larceny might be welcome. Last year, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan??s speech left many seats empty. But Remeika says his staff tries to avoid that scenario...