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...cannot be said of his successor, Robert C. Darnton ’60, whose prior expertise in the study of books field is a rare asset for a professor starting his term as director of the University Library.With volumes including “The Literary Underground of the Old Regime?? and “The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France” to his name, Darnton brings strong academic assets to the position and recognition around the library world. But arriving this summer as a Harvard outsider, Darnton—after 40 years of teaching history...
...eight-member limit for blocking groups—down from 20 under the pre-randomization regime??ensures that one’s group of friends is splintered even before being arbitrarily distributed throughout campus. The “communities” that result, twelve microcosmic Harvards with ethnic ratios comparable to the University as a whole, elevate diversity not only as a principle of social or educational justice but as a fact of quotidian life...
...Tadic said of past strife, quoting Nikola Tesla, whom Tadic called “the man Serbia and Croatia celebrate together.” Tadic argued that giving independence to Kosovo—a region in Serbia that underwent ethnic cleansing under the Slobodan Miloševic regime??is not a viable idea and is detrimental to democratic consolidation in the region. Mesic, in a lengthy speech about the history of Kosovo, insisted that a solution must be found diplomatically. Tadic then thanked Mesic for his “long” historical analysis, arousing laughter among...
...With all the concern over Iran’s nuclear program, we need to do whatever we can to keep the regime??s civil rights abuses in the spotlight,” one of the protest’s organizers, Adrian N. Gaty ’07, wrote in an e-mail. The protest is set to begin at 3 p.m. in the John F. Kennedy Park adjacent to the Kennedy School...
...policemen escorting the scholar to his car.The attack sparked a fierce debate between those who claimed Ngo was an apologist for the reeducation camps of an oppressive Vietnamese government and those who claimed his views were being misrepresented. Ngo was “sympathetic to the [communist] regime?? and “very dangerous to public opinion,” according to Tran Quang Tuan, a leader among local refugees.Cheu, who had spent time in a Vietnamese reeducation camp, was found innocent by reason of insanity the following May.And in what appeared to be another act of arson...