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...senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity, a post that puts her in charge of recruiting more female and minority professors—said that the number of African-Americans in hard-science Ph.D. programs had decreased in recent decades. The panel came in the context of a weekend conference sponsored by the BLSA and centered on the theme of empowerment. Kennedy School economist Ronald F. Ferguson said that “empowerment comes from building our human capital and using it for purposes that matter to us.” Law student Amanda K. Edwards...
...transformative experience affect shoppers? The reason you like Anthropologie is because the space is saying, "Stay. Wander. Make yourself comfortable." There aren't aisles telling you where to walk. You have a kinesthetic freedom. You can make choices and discoveries. You develop a relationship with the space, the context, the experience?and therefore with the brand. That's more interesting to us, rather than a grid telling us how to move and how to shop...
...blossoming and energy-thirsty economies of India and China promise to lift the demand for oil to unprecedented heights. In this context, President Bush’s proposal to provide India with fuel for its civilian nuclear power plants is prudent and necessary. The president articulated the reasoning behind the plan while visiting New Delhi last week: “Increasing demand for oil from America, from India and China, relative to a supply that’s not keeping up with demand, causes our fuel prices to go up,” he said...
...performed by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The real reason: so a wealthy English arts patron, Sydney Schiff, could bring together the giants he worshipped. In A Night at the Majestic, Richard Davenport-Hines brilliantly reimagines this unique-in-art-history event, setting the five-star diners in their Modernist context, between Picasso's first and shocking foray into Cubism, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon of 1906-7, and Joyce's revolutionary novel, Ulysses, in 1922. The ambitious Schiff was pinning his hopes for the evening - and for his own reputation in the arts - on the first, and what would...
...other way around.“What [the team] experienced for the first time was the feeling that people were really trying to beat us this year,” Sullivan said. “We generally saw some teams genuinely get excited about beating us. Within the context of our league, we all of a sudden became a quality win, and we took a good shot from a lot of teams.”Now, Harvard is back in the role of the hunter. —Staff writer Caleb W. Peiffer can be reached at cpeiffer@fas.harvard.edu...