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...Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning—the institution that trains Harvard teaching fellows. “This topic comes up very often at Harvard and it has been going on for a long, long time…I think some women are not as willing to assert their opinions in class and the problem is very noticeable.” Warren did acknowledge this varies depending on course and concentration, but it is a large enough issue that the center actually trains teaching fellows how to encourage more female undergraduates to participate in class discussions...
...Crimson doesn’t win the battle up front and Dartmouth manages to assert its running game, Harvard will find itself contending with many of the same difficulties that emerged last weekend against the Tigers...
Instead, the U.S. needs a firm response. First, it needs to be clear that it will not be manipulated—whether by an oil baron, a media tycoon, or the Kremlin itself. Second, it needs to assert priorities with respect to Russia and determine whether the benefits to national security really outweigh the complications an oil project would bring. Finally, the U.S. needs to decide whether Putin is in fact a facilitator of U.S. interests. If not, it must ask whether it is prepared to embrace global partnership with a handful of oligarchs who bankrupted their own country during...
People who perform with tigers constantly assert dominance over the animals, and that can create a backlash. For that reason, says Paquette, it is surprising that Roy Horn and his partner, Siegfried Fischbacher, have not been attacked before. "A tiger, especially one under stress, is a time bomb waiting...
...accounts were being frozen--was judged woefully inadequate. Publicly, Syria denies there is any Iraqi money in the country. But just over two weeks ago, the U.S. sent two American financial experts and two representatives of the Iraqi Central Bank to Syria to comb through records. U.S. officials now assert that Damascus has given them only "limited cooperation...