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  1. Lessons in meritocracy: Civil rights attorney Lani Guinier on the failure of higher education

    Americans are a competitive lot, and that can have its advantages, but not necessarily when it comes to educating a generation that will need to collaborate in order to solve our intractable problems. That’s the perspective of civil rights attorney and Ha ...

    18 Feb 2015 - Jared Paben

  2. Foot soldiers of the Civil Rights era, past and present

    History is written by the victors.” At least, that’s what a famous quote tells us. Trouble is, there’s no real agreement on who spoke or wrote those words. Maybe it was Niccolò Machiavelli, author of the 16th-century work of political philosophy, “The Pri ...

    3 Feb 2015 - Rosette Royale

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