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...male-dominated. Some 74% of financial-management degree holders in the survey sample were male. Men made up 73% of economics graduates. And to take one example from engineering, some 83% of mechanical-engineer grads were male. (Hunt's own economics professorship nicely illustrates that trends are hardly rules - although she is working outside her undergraduate major, electrical engineering...
...Hunt. If part of the problem in a male-dominated environment is that it's more difficult for women to network - grabbing a beer at a sports bar after work may appeal more to one gender than to the other - then deliberately trying to build those bonds might help. Although even that, at this point, is speculation. What's for sure is that "it's not about math or getting your hands dirty," says Hunt. "It's not because these women mistakenly wandered into engineering...
...Soviet Union. Given the modern relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia and the collapse of the U.S.S.R., such concerns seem outdated. Furthermore, while Israel shares certain key U.S. values, the imperialism and racial overtones of its settlement programs do not fit within our nation’s ideals (although America has been prone to similar failings in the past). Finally, and most worrisome, Israel’s continued policy toward the West Bank and Gaza Strip is undemocratic and unconscionable. Israel has committed atrocities in its military actions—admittedly, in response to other atrocities...
...Although Harvard’s initial entry to iTunes may be somewhat less than groundbreaking, the administration’s commitment to an organized, centralized framework wherein more courses can be quickly added gives us hope that there is monumental potential for Harvard to easily and greatly augment its public offerings...
...corrupt provincial Afghan government years ago (Mangal's immediate predecessor had been caught with nine tons of opium in his compound). They had supported the Taliban as a more orderly option but were ready, allegedly, to switch sides. What they really wanted was a real government providing real services - although they were adamant about one demand: they wanted the U.S. and Afghan national security forces to police the area, not the local cops who had plundered them at will in the past. And then an extraordinary thing happened: the shura turned into the sort of town-council meeting that...