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...critics within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) contend that many women's gender and their intellectual work become inextricably linked, ultimately making the goal of a gender-balanced faculty even more difficult to attain...
...took the next step--into high-powered mainstream politics, sanding down Pentecostal edges as he went. The last Assemblies member to attain high government rank, President Reagan's Interior Secretary, James Watt, once let drop that "I do not know how many future generations we can count on before the Lord returns"--a statement exploited by foes who claimed he had no reason to preserve natural resources. Says John Green, a politics-and-religion expert at the University of Akron: "I've never heard Ashcroft say anything like that. [His electoral experience] may not have moderated the substance...
Harvard social politics also function in such a way that there exists a fine, almost indistinguishable line between the Good Guys and the Martyrs. The easiest way to attain Good Guy status at Harvard is to suffer some egregious affront--oftentimes in the form of a failed election attempt or an unfulfilled goal. As such, we fill our void of Good Guys with an overflowing reserve of Martyrs. Martyrs, after all, are safe to praise. They pose no threat to our own ambition, we can safely embrace them with compassion and bemoan the injustices that have been committed against them...
...time--his best by three seconds--was just 0.05 seconds away from an NCAA standard that would have automatically qualified him for the championship meet in March. However, because only four or five collegiate swimmers will likely attain that standard prior to the meet, Im has essentially secured himself a spot at NCAAs...
...Sunshine State is a paradise of scandals, teeming with grifters, deadbeats and misfits drawn here by some dark primordial calling, like demented trout. You would be surprised how many seek and attain public office...