Word: academia
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...examined Ballard’s integral role in a post-Revolutionary Maine community, Ulrich has established herself as an influential figure in academia...
Even as the Pentagon claims that the military is making great strides against the insurgency in Iraq, there are growing signs that U.S. forces may be near the breaking point. Some 600 top officials of industry, academia and the military are huddling in the capital this week to figure out how to defeat the lethal "improvised explosive devices"-roadside bombs-that have become a grave threat deployed by the insurgency against U.S. troops in Iraq. Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England told some of the military-industrial complex's brainiest thinkers on Monday that "we owe it to the troops...
...Reid's biggest challenge, though, comes from the timing of the vote on Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, who is widely expected to cruise to confirmation over increasingly impotent Democratic resistance. Republican Senators will take the floor this week citing a wide range of bipartisan Alito supporters from academia, the judiciary and the executive branch. And far from winning over moderate Republicans, Democrats seem to be losing their own centrists. Democratic leadership aides say they expect Senators Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Bill Nelson of Florida to vote for Alito, joined by Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan of North Dakota...
...academia, where specialization is a virtue that earns tenure, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies James Russell is a curious person to lead the charge for general education.Nonetheless, in a two-semester survey of “Literature Humanities,” Russell has carved out a place in the battery of freshmen seminars (usually a portal to Harvard at its most myopic) to provide a semblance of well-rounded, broad education to eager newcomers.It has long been supposed that no one—neither professors nor students—wants to be troubled by the dead white men who comprise...
...greater number of men than women are capable of extraordinary brilliance in the sciences.• “socialization and patterns of discrimination,” two separate theories arguing that men might simply prefer science more than women and that claims of gender discrimination in academia appear overstated.Much has been made of those hypotheses and their relative merits in the year since Summers and his critics brought them into national view. And the notes, which closely mirror the transcript of his remarks that was released a month later, shed scant new light on the president?...