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...Flowers University Professor under whom Aizenberg studied in her earlier stint at Harvard. “She is someone we would recruit completely independent of everything else.”Capasso says that Aizenberg will remain a leader in the university setting even though, he says, women scientists confront more obstacles in academia than in industry.“There is no question that in industry the glass ceiling is much less than in academia—in the real world you have to solve problems so you get talent from wherever you can find it,” says...
...encompasses a single night. Lying sleepless next to her oblivious mate, Paula addresses an anxious monologue to her sleeping twins. "I'm the only one awake in this house on the night before the day that will change all our lives," she intones ominously. Tomorrow, she and Mike will confront the kids with wrenching news. Before disclosing it, she spends most of the book recounting her life before meeting Mike (comfortable), their courtship (cute), their work (she sells art, he runs a publishing firm), the houses they've inhabited (confusingly many), some nice family outings to the beach...
...maybe Spider-Man 3 has a quadruple-gnger. Peter also must confront his photographer rival Eddie Brock (a.k.a. Venom), played by Topher Grace. "He gets very similar powers to Spider-Man; they work in the same place, they're after the same girls," he says. The difference: Grace can be extreme without worrying about breaking character. "When you play a protagonist, a bell goes off every time you do something outside the range of normal behavior," Grace says. "But when you're a psycho from outer space, there's something very freeing. With great powers comes great...
...confront the history of racism and sexism in this country and the multitude of ways in which women have had to fight to get equal opportunities to compete—for Yale’s first female rowers, this meant walking sweaty and chilled into the athletic director’s office and stripping off their shirts to reveal the words “Title IX” painted across their bare breasts, in order to demand equal funding for women’s rowing. I challenge the networks to help us face this history, one which thankfully is rarely...
...Summers, but I felt proud of the University’s concentrated efforts in response—more conversations, committees to study gender-based obstacles in the tenure track, and this fall, the opening of a campus women’s center. Then, and now, the best way to confront “bad”—offensive, painful, difficult, or unfavorable—speech is not by silencing it, but by responding with more speech...