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Cambridge

African art show opens at Harvard’s Cooper Gallery

CAMBRIDGE – Walking into the gallery located off Brattle Square in Cambridge, a visitor immediately confronts a doll-like female figurine, but one that sports wings and is missing a head. Yinka Shonibare's Food Faerie, adorned in brightly colored fabric and holding a pack of peaches on her back, seems

fossil fuel

UMass dumping fossil fuels cheers greens but may prove costly

BOSTON – The University of Massachusetts became the first major public university system in America to completely divest fossil fuel-related investments, a decision that was received with glee by environmental activists on campus. "WE WON!!!!!" proudly declared a Facebook post from the driving force behind the movement urging the

students

Obama admin: Colleges shouldn’t ask applicants about criminal records

The Obama administration is pressuring colleges to not include questions about criminal records on applications, and the country's largest application is already giving ground.

colleges

Do we still dream the dream?

Every year, on Martin Luther King Day, NPR plays Dr. King's 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech from the March on Washington in its entirety. I have made my children listen to it many times. Although we all know the key lines, which will be played

Massachusetts

Demands for ‘safe’ spaces lead to campus debates

NEWTON – While many Massachusetts campuses have become battlegrounds over acceptable forms of expression – such as what constitutes "hate speech" or should be considered "safe spaces" – resistance to "political correctness" has also cropped up in what amounts to a debate over a fundamental American freedom.

boston

Yale should follow GE to Boston

Maybe Yale should move. That's the reaction of at least one Yale graduate, the Cato Institute's Walter Olson, to the news that the Connecticut state legislature is reportedly considering imposing a new tax on endowment income of universities with endowments larger than $10 billion.

boston

State law banning secret recording faces court challenge

BOSTON – Project Veritas, a guerilla journalism group known for taking undercover videos focusing a conservative eye on topics ranging from vote fraud to Common Core educational standards, sued in federal court to upend a Massachusetts law that bans most surreptitious recording. The group, led by James O'Keefe, named

boston

Divestment follies

Say something often enough — like "97 percent of climate scientists agree" — and people will tend to believe it. Add the concept of identification, in which like-minded people gravitate toward one another, and a movement, a shared narrative, can be created. The psychological principles of repetition and identification are