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...hold onto their dreams, not only must women attain the necessary skills and experience, they must also have their achievements appropriately recognized,” wrote Buck Luce and study co-author Sylvia A. Hewlitt. “To the extent the latter is missing in female careers, ambition is undermined...
...remarkable that such a dazzling production was presented within the relatively homely quarters of the Dunster House Dining Hall. While one might speculate about the glory that Candide might attain if presented as a full Broadway production, it was easy to appreciate the DHO’s resourceful and impressive production. This isn’t just Voltaire’s satire—it is a satire for the postmodern, Hollywood world...
...whom I spoke pointed to self-imposed expectations as a cause of the intense atmosphere on campus, an atmosphere not often conducive to happiness. By transforming it from a subconscious desire to a self-conscious necessity, the aggressive nature of Harvard students ironically makes happiness more difficult to attain. One student explained that he felt obligated to go to as many dinners, seminars, and speaker events as possible, simply to avoid “shortchanging” his college experience. Hearing this, I couldn’t help but wonder: what did it mean when opportunities were no longer individual...
...although it was an almost entirely Kikuyu uprising—and sometimes Elkins intermingles the two terms. There was never any shortage of Kikuyu loyalists willing to point fingers at Mau Mau, and the British were always pleased to promote these Kikuyu to the highest position any African could attain. Moreover, membership in Mau Mau unambiguously hinged on a specific induction oath that created an ideological distinction within a larger ethnic community. Not all Kikuyu were Mau Mau, and not all Kikuyu were targeted for elimination by the British. The Kikuyu experience under colonial rule was multifaceted: no one suffered...
...hawks' skepticism of the effectiveness of negotiations in stopping nations going nuclear is not without foundation. In today's geo-strategic reality, there's no good reason why any nation state that has the means to attain nuclear weapons would accept a status quo that nukes them out of its hands, while leaving them in the hands of its enemies. Indeed, the strongest impulse to build nuclear weapons, in Iran, as everywhere else, comes from the fact that its key enemies are nuclear-armed and the resulting belief that a nuclear deterrent is therefore essential to Iran's national security...