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Four months after University President Lawrence H. Summers’ remarks on women in science sparked an outcry on campus and across the country, Harvard administrators today announced a $50 million initiative to address the dearth of female students and faculty in the University’s science departments...
Natural resources are far from the only arena in which the Peruvian state has near-absolute jurisdiction. The state’s massive power, combined with the dearth of democratic institutions, has generated a crisis of political legitimacy in Peru and other Latin American countries, often manifesting itself in the form of violence or paralyzing demonstrations...
...dearth of advisors has been felt by applicants such as Jillian E. Gagnon ’06, whose application to write a novella was rejected this year. Gagnon, who has taken two semesters of creative writing, first began formulating the idea for her creative thesis “about a guy in the fifties” last December...
Glick had seen “This is Our Youth” in England in the early 1990s, and it stuck with him. When he formed a drama society at the Graduate School of Education this fall, filling a drama dearth there, he realized he had a chance to direct the play...
...sports a pornucopia of nude encounter parlors, nude dancing clubs, hard-core movie houses and so-called adult bookstores that offer private booths in which patrons can watch 25 peep-show movies and engage in anonymous sex with other patrons through holes cut in the walls. Because of the dearth of zoning laws, the porn traffic, instead of being centered in one "combat zone," as in Boston or Washington, turns up everywhere, even near churches, schools and nurseries. "I think Houston is getting a reputation for being soft on this kind of thing," says City Councilman Frank Mancuso, whose district...