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A Secret at the Hearth of Adams House | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson

A Secret at the Hearth of Adams House | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson

The Harvard Crimson — A fireplace in Adams House has racist caricatures sculpted into its pillars. Without a word, administrators boarded them up to divert attention away. Three years on, they have yet to formally, publicly acknowledge these sculptures or their literal cover-up.
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'A little red pocket on the New Hampshire border': The national fissures splitting a competitive ...

'A little red pocket on the New Hampshire border': The national fissures splitting a competitive ...

The Boston Globe — The contest for the GOP nomination between a hard-line and a moderate Republican is a brass-knuckle brawl of a reminder that national divisions - over whether the 2020 election was stolen, for instance - can still split the most local contests, even in a state like Massachusetts.
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The Crimson Klan

The Crimson Klan

The Harvard Crimson — The Ku Klux Klan's presence at Harvard throughout the twentieth century, though it waxed and waned, was clear. Yet attempts to recognize and reckon with the Crimson Klan, a brazen symbol of racism and the legacy of slavery at Harvard, appear absent from the University's recent attempts to reckon with its past.
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The strange Mass. crime wave over catalytic converters and the bill aiming to curb theft - The Bo...

The strange Mass. crime wave over catalytic converters and the bill aiming to curb theft - The Bo...

The Boston Globe — In Cambridge alone, Police Department spokesperson Jeremy Warnick said police get a call over a missing converter just about every day. Police Lieutenant John Soules said some Pittsfield businesses have suffered thefts "multiple nights in a row," an "astounding" rate. Enter: the state Legislature.
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Harvard Professor's Paper Claiming 'Comfort Women' in Imperial Japan Were Voluntarily Employed St...

Harvard Professor's Paper Claiming 'Comfort Women' in Imperial Japan Were Voluntarily Employed St...

The Harvard Crimson — A paper by Harvard Law School Japanese legal studies professor J. Mark Ramseyer that claims sex slaves taken by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II were actually recruited, contracted sex workers generated international controversy, academic criticism, and student petitions at Harvard this week.
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Meet the generals leading COVID response in Philippines, Indonesia

Meet the generals leading COVID response in Philippines, Indonesia

Rappler — The Philippines and Indonesia are the two laggards of Southeast Asia in controlling the coronavirus pandemic. Both countries are experiencing exponential growth in confirmed COVID-19 cases, and experts say both have employed a militarized response to this health crisis. Here are the retired and active generals leading each country's COVID-19 task forces.
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'God Only Knows': As Sea Level Rise Threatens Harvard and Greater Boston Area, Experts Mull Mitig...

'God Only Knows': As Sea Level Rise Threatens Harvard and Greater Boston Area, Experts Mull Mitig...

The Harvard Crimson — For residents of Boston and its constituent neighborhoods, their proximity to the Charles River, Boston Harbor, and the Atlantic Ocean has long been an asset. But as global temperatures steadily increase, experts predict that the resulting sea level rise and flooding will encroach on the Greater Boston Area — including Harvard's campus.
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