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...aftermath of his controversial comments on women in science last year, Summers turned to Faust to lead the development of a University-wide diversity initiative, which ultimately resulted in a $50 million pledge to promote females and minorities...
...Speaking in a flat, weary drone, Wayne Gretzky used the word "devastation" at least seven times in his post-game news conference, as though he was talking about the aftermath of a forest fire. "The pressure of representing this country in hockey in any international competition is extremely high," said Gretzky, Team Canada's executive director. "There are no words to describe how devastating a loss like this...
...behind closed doors with all security matters is only fueling the problem. Former Senator Warren Rudman, who co-chaired the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century, predicts "there will be hell to pay" when the quiet decisions to postpone the response to known vulnerabilities become public knowledge in the aftermath of the next attack. Americans will be rightfully enraged to learn that senior officials were aware of the threat but had concluded that putting adequate safeguards in place to protect their citizens was too difficult or too expensive and then hid from the electorate both the reality of the danger...
Others, however, did leave their posts in the aftermath of the uproar. Cowles Professor of Anthropology Peter T. Ellison stepped down from his administrative post as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences last spring, and Harvard Corporation member Conrad K. Harper left the governing board in July 2005, saying he “could no longer support” Summers...
...Good Life” is a chronicle of the worlds of two very different families that are surreptitiously, but inextricably, intertwined in the aftermath of disaster...