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After intense speculation that he would abandon Harvard this year, DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., who chairs the Afro-American studies department, said today he will remain in Cambridge at least one more year...
...February, the National Intelligence Council, an umbrella panel representing U.S. spy agencies, detailed the threat posed by stored Russian nuclear weapons. Poverty is rampant among Russian nuclear-weapons guards, it noted. Many are homeless, and some have conducted hunger strikes because they have not been paid. Guards sometimes abandon their posts, and at one location an alarm system works only half the time. Russia's nuclear security, the report concluded, "may not be sufficient to meet today's challenge of a knowledgeable insider collaborating with a criminal or terrorist group." The Bush Administration's response? Conditions can only get better...
...silent suspicions a recognizable name: racial profiling. They contend that not unlike police who stop people on the basis of race, teachers and school officials discipline black students more often--and more harshly--than whites. The result: black students are more likely to slip behind in their studies and abandon school altogether--if they're not kicked out first. In Modesto, black students are 2 1/2 times as likely as their white peers to be expelled. This kind of treatment persists not only in the farm country of Modesto but also in urban districts like Minneapolis, Minn. During...
...businesses don't have to abandon all secrecy in the information age, says Tom Halbouty, chief information officer of Pioneer Natural Resources, based in Irving, Texas. The company often collaborates with its competitors. To protect secrets about oil-field discoveries and drilling-platform designs, Pioneer purchased software from Infraworks of Austin, Texas, that limits the reproduction of sensitive digital documents. The company encrypts its Internet communication with partners and insists that contractors working on site use Pioneer's e-mail system so the company can track what information they send to whom. Pioneer is also careful to obtain nondisclosure agreements...
Over the next two months our athletes competed in outdoor sports with reckless abandon and amazing success. In October, the women’s tennis team captured the fall ECAC championship, while the football team scored a pair of heart attack-inducing wins over Princeton and Dartmouth over at the Stadium. By November, Harvard was winning trophies left and right. Men’s water polo had its highest finish ever (third) at the Eastern Championships, field hockey close out its season with four straight wins and both soccers were headed for the NCAA tournament...