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...Summers posited innate aptitude and proclivity as one hypothesis for why women are underrepresented in tenured faculty positions in engineering and the sciences. Sadly, these unfortunate remarks almost completely eclipsed the many positive aspects of his presidency in national media reports. Summers’ remarks were unrefined and excessively blunt, but these were errors for which he has repeatedly and publicly apologized. His very reason for speaking at the conference was to provoke discussion in the academic community on how to provide women with equal opportunity to hold senior faculty positions in the sciences. His intentions were genuine...
...stands, moderates and conservatives alike predict that Ohio Republican John Boehner is likely to stay in charge on the strength of his handling of the bailout rebellion in September and the drilling fight over the summer. Majority leader Roy Blunt, long the object of complaint among party foot soldiers, announced Thursday that he would step down, a day after the party's No. 3, Adam Putnam, did the same...
Before hundreds of Republican activists, the Republican nominee refused to play to partisan passions or score political points. In blunt terms, he praised the historic significance of Barack Obama's victory and embraced the pain of his own defeat. "Though we fell short, the failure is mine, not yours," he told the crowd, earning jeers along with cheers...
...rather than a grand theologian's invitation to tea, Muslims around the world took the Pope's discourse - a probing and sometimes blunt analysis of reason's role in religion that included a denigrating historical reference to Mohammed - as a monumental slap in the face. The Pope's defenders argued that some of the more radical reactions to the speech, including church burnings in the West Bank and the murder of a nun in Somalia, were themselves proof that Benedict was right to delve deeply into the question of violence in Islam. All agreed that more than tea would...
Missouri Governor MATT BLUNT, after a federal judge blocked parts of a state bill requiring sex offenders to remain in their homes on Halloween night and avoid any contact with children related to the holiday...