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...attacks started after your “women in science” speech, did you not strongly defend yourself and your argument from the outset? You’re certainly capable of engaging in a debate. It felt a little like John Kerry’s reluctance to confront the Swift Boat veterans, who eventually got the best of him. What was holding you back? LHS: Every group has had, can have, and will have great scientists, and I never wanted to do anything that suggested that I or Harvard thought anything else or wanted to send any different signal...
...plan is its bottom line: $60,000. Perhaps the reconstituted Student Assembly will be able to do more than stage rock concerts with that money. Perhaps it will save a little for its own purposes and distribute the rest to campus organizations that will use the funds to confront the administration and demand real change. We cannot wholeheartedly support the Dowling committee reforms because we believe they hold out a false promise. In this University, one side, the administration and the Faculty, holds all the power. The other, the students, have none. And in a system like that, the powerful...
...Iran fears attack by the U.S., hawks in Tehran will have an argument for pursuing a nuclear deterrent. But the U.S. won't offer Iran security guarantees without assurances from Iran on such issues as terrorism. So any negotiations over the nuclear issue would force Washington and Tehran to confront their differences over a number of other issues. The two nations are unlikely ever to kiss and make up, but such comprehensive talks could help manage the conflict between them in the interests of stability...
Bravo for your reporting on autismand treatment options [May 15]. I encounter many toddlers and young children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Explaining the diagnosis to parents causes them immediate confusion, panic and pain at the loss of the "normal child" they expected, as they confront a child who responds to the world in his own foreign code. Your article highlighted the Floortime approach. My colleagues and I are firm believers that for most children and families, it is the method that best enhances the bonding between child and parent, child and therapist, and eventually child and peers. The therapy...
Negotiating with a regime like Iran's, however, would have drawbacks. Skeptics dismiss the sincerity of the Iranian proffers, calling them ploys to distract attention from Tehran's defiance and dilute the international community's will to confront Iran. "We have nothing to say to them," says a U.S. official deeply involved in the Iran issue. "Every demand and every incentive that we would support has already been put on the table." The official adds that by agreeing to talk to Iran, the U.S. would "absolve the international community of the responsibility to tackle this problem." Opponents of engagement further...