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From The November-December 2003 Issue

Published in the November-December 2003 print issue in the John Harvard's Journal section.

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The Supreme Court Affirmative Action Rulings: An Analysis

The underlying arguments project clashing worldviews of race and appropriate remedies.

The Secrets of Haiti’s Living Dead

 A Harvard botanist investigates mystic potions, voodoo rites, and the making of zombies.

An animal’s journey from grief to love shows how much humans need each other, too.

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