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...True, she makes her point clear: there have been many examples of women who have earned the right to have their names alongside those of George Washington or Frederick Douglass. But at times, Ulrich’s awkward shift from a two-sentence summary of one woman to a brief mention of another woman diminishes the achievements of each; the reader has to transition so quickly from one story to the next that the details, while presented in full, are lost.Still, by discussing individuals who are too often absent from mainstream histories, Ulrich illuminates the many ways in which women...
...Politburo. In legend, Communist Party meetings are endless, but since 2002, when Hu Jintao became General Secretary of the party (he became President of China the next year), Politburo sessions have been quite brisk. Typically, they are over by lunchtime, and then two top academics are ushered in to brief the assembled leaders on trends in energy supply, patterns of urbanization or intellectual-property rights. The discussion can last until the evening, when Hu sums things up, though he reportedly rarely expresses his own opinion. "It's amazing," says Alice Lyman Miller, a China scholar at Stanford University and editor...
...best seller A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking captivated readers with mind-bending conundrums bound to awaken childlike wonder even among the terminally unimaginative: for instance, if the universe is expanding, where is it expanding...
...Even though both Gutierrez and Tomas have had to live off-campus, they have tried to remain as active as possible in Harvard life. Both agree it has not been easy. When Tomas returned to campus after a brief hiatus—as a second-semester freshman unable to return to the dorms—she often felt out of the loop. Since she was affiliated with Dudley House, she was off of the Freshman Dean’s Office’s radar...
...about September in Harvard Yard,” the same could not be said for her prose. Bok: 311 words Last year, then-Interim President Derek C. Bok wrote to the community announcing the retirement of Sidney Verba, Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library. A brief 311-word note, Bok’s letter is almost 1/6 the length of Faust’s and perhaps 6 times more readable. Summers: 465 words In a time before the infamous women-in-science remarks, former President Lawrence H. Summers solicited thoughts on a new provost to replace...