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Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "harvard"

Harvard Study: Lack of Insurance Causes 45,000 Deaths Every Year

Harvard Study: Lack of Insurance Causes 45,000 Deaths Every Year

Staff, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. September 18, 2009.
That's one every 12 Seconds on average.

The Ugly Racism of the Right Will Be Their Undoing

The Ugly Racism of the Right Will Be Their Undoing

Leslie Savan, TheNation.com AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. August 3, 2009.
Watching the GOP morph into the National Association for the Advancement of White People should give us all hope, not despair.

What if Henry Louis Gates Were Not an Acclaimed Professor?

What if Henry Louis Gates Were Not an Acclaimed Professor?

Raj Jayadev, New America Media. July 29, 2009.
Tomorrow's White House happy hour is an uncommon ending to a common occurrence –- a man of color citing racial profiling after an arrest.

What Makes the Arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. So Tragic

What Makes the Arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. So Tragic

Melissa Harris-Lacewell, TheNation.com. July 22, 2009.
In a moment of overzealous policing, an officer in Cambridge handcuffed and detain a living embodiment of post-racial possibility.

Elite Colleges Are Promoting a Culture of Selfish, Cutthroat Behavior and We Are All Paying the Price

Elite Colleges Are Promoting a Culture of Selfish, Cutthroat Behavior and We Are All Paying the Price

Peter Schmidt, AlterNet. May 23, 2009.
The results are campus environments where disregard for society is socially accepted, where misguided students are encouraged to become worse.

The Best and the Brightest Have Led America Off a Cliff

The Best and the Brightest Have Led America Off a Cliff

Chris Hedges, Truthdig. December 9, 2008.
Don't expect the so-called experts to fix it either. They can't. They are loyal to the decaying political and financial systems that empowered them.

The Science of Happiness: Is It All Bullshit?

The Science of Happiness: Is It All Bullshit?

Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. July 4, 2008.
Just because a Harvard academic says something is so, doesn't mean it is.

 Sweatin' the Quran

Sweatin' the Quran

Katha Pollitt, The Nation. April 16, 2008.
Harvard's woman-only gym time has the Islamophobes out in full force. But let's get a grip: This isn't about terrorism, Osama bin Laden or burqas.

Are Harvard Men Sidelined by Sharia?

Are Harvard Men Sidelined by Sharia?

Bean, Lawyers, Guns and Money AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. March 13, 2008.
Harvard has instituted a women-only gym hour to accommodate Muslim women, and conservatives are calling it "discrimination" against Ivy League men.

Harvard's new president is not just a woman

Harvard's new president is not just a woman

Evan Derkacz, AlterNet: PEEK. February 12, 2007.
She has ideas! About Bush, War, America, 9/11...