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Article: High jinks at Harvard overshadow real issues. (Speaking Of Education).(affirmative action, African American studies)(Brief Article)
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- Black Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- February 14, 2002
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If you haven't heard about the flap between Harvard's President Lawrence Summers and the institution's University Professor Cornel West, you've been hiding under a rock somewhere.
Taking a break from the war and Enron, the New York Times made the showdown into headline news, with every rambling hater in the world weighing in, including the mediocre Shelby Steele (whose publishing record hardly entitles him to call Cornel West anything but "sir,") the Washington Post's resident anti-affirmative action Richard Cohen, the sour Mary McGrory and the pugnacious Michael Meyers. Except for a wonderful piece from the Post's Courtland Milloy, who opined there were hundreds ...