Word: barbarae
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...when Summers announced the creation of two Faculty task forces to address the dearth of women in science at Harvard. Politically, the announcement was most significant because of the help he had enlisted to facilitate the task forces: Professors Drew Gilpin Faust, Evelynn M. Hammonds, and Barbara J. Grosz, all members of the Faculty and strong critics of Summers’ original remarks. Inside Mass. Hall, staffers hoped that the trio would dispel notions of Summers’ estrangement from his Faculty, according to two people close to the president’s office...
...political and economic level, what is going on in the Middle East,” said Dagli, who added that the Governance Initiative hoped that the trip would attract Arab students who would eventually return to “become agents of change” in their countries.Ambassador Barbara Bodine, the director of the Initiative, did not respond to requests for comment last night.The expedition has also received help from alumni in the region, who have provided logistical support such as helping to book hotel rooms.While all eight of the students speak at least some Arabic, and visas...
...took Barbara Hustedt Crook an awfully long time to get around to writing her first musical. She started last year, shortly before her 60th birthday. Her friend and collaborator, Robert Strozier, waited even longer; he's 65. It's not that they didn't have the creative chops for the job. The two have spent their careers writing and editing in New York City, and Crook has a background in performing, singing and piano. But creating a musical always felt just out of reach--until...
...Skilled and hourly listings are growing. Barbara Ehrenreich wrote in Nickel and Dimed that after working two jobs, she didn't have the strength to look for another. Now she would have the energy, because she would just go online. Of the 50,000 rsums we get a day, more than half come from blue-collar workers. Are the machinists and lathe operators looking for a job online now? You bet. We have even put in a team to police the listings, which have included everything from prostitution to money laundering...
Early on, jokes about the pair began turning up in Bush-family monologues. Barbara Bush dubbed them the odd couple. After Bush allowed as how he might be the father Clinton never really had, Florida Governor Jeb Bush referred to Clinton as "Bro." Bush 43 joined in too, telling guests at a private white-tie dinner that when Clinton woke up from his March operation, he was "surrounded by his loved ones: Hillary, Chelsea...