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...facilitate easy access to Harvard, Houghton purchased an apartment in Boston, making the area a second home...
...conservative majorities in Congress following the “Republican Revolution” strengthened the law in 1995 to allow the Department of Defense to deny federal funding to institutions that did not permit military access to their campuses...
...Allowing military recruiters access to its career placement services, Kagan said, was the only way to make sure that the Law School would not jeopardize funding for the rest of the University...
...There are three things wrong with today's idea of flexibility. One, it's very limited; it's coming in at 9 instead of 8. Two, there's limited access; only certain people with certain jobs get it. Third, and this is still pretty hush-hush, is that there's a career trade-off. People who opt to work in a "nontraditional" manner are stigmatized. They're getting their work done, but they're judged and punished by being passed over for promotions...
Norris Johnson and William Feinberg, then sociology professors at the University of Cincinnati, managed to get access to the police interviews with hundreds of survivors - a rare and valuable database. "We were just overwhelmed with what was there," says Feinberg, now retired. People were remarkably loyal to their identities. An estimated 60% of the employees tried to help in some way - either by directing guests to safety or fighting the fire. By comparison, only 17% of the guests helped. But even among the guests, identity shaped behavior. The doctors who had been dining at the club acted as doctors, administering...