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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Because gender and its relationship to athletic advantage can be such a complex matter, the International Olympic Committee and the IAAF now use a comprehensive evaluation by a panel of specialists to determine whether an athlete can compete as a woman. The IAAF's evaluation of Semenya will include an endocrinologist, a gynecologist and a psychologist. Whether Semenya is genetically male will be only one of the factors considered. The test will also likely include a psychological profile to see whether she feels herself to be a woman. (Read "Feeling Betrayed by Marion Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is a Female Track Star a Man? No Simple Answer | 8/25/2009 | See Source »

Allston residents demanded further revisions to the planned relocation of the Charlesview Apartments, while others who live in the complex urged that the plan go forward at a crowded and contentious Monday meeting -- the first public discussion since Harvard agreed to add 1.74 acres of land to the proposed new home for the apartments...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Residents Clash Over Revised Charlesview Relocation | 8/25/2009 | See Source »

...about running their business. Is it not obvious that these consultants often don't know very much? Most people in the business world know there's a lot of phony expertise floating around. Most of it you can explain on anthropological rather than technical grounds: we have a very complex economy that requires management, and management needs legitimacy. It does this through credentials and so-called expertise, and creates a whole class of people who are accountable only to themselves. For me the problem is the idea there's a general field of management that applies across all different kinds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Management Consultants Necessary? | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

...megacities continue to grow and become more complex, it's likely that many will have to get wired just to stay manageable. Seoul took the considerable risk of being out front, but it has demonstrated the potential payback when the city government, and not just the citizens, is one of the early adopters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seoul: World's Most Wired Megacity Gets More So | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

Yale: 1. School spirit? Check! Deep-seated inferiority complex? Of course not! Who told you that? BOOLAH-BOOLAH DANNY...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dictionary of Harvardisms | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

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