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Brown said he thought the Faculty meeting would have drawn more media attention if professors had cast ballots on a motion expressing “no confidence” in Summers’ leadership. “No vote, no story,” Brown said...
...comfortable with who she is and what she believes." "I think she could win every state John Kerry won. And she'd probably be a better candidate in the swing states." Graham, who joined Maine Senator Susan Collins, Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold, McCain and Clinton in Iraq, has drawn some presidential buzz himself, although he admits he was not a star on that trip. "When you travel with Senator Clinton and McCain, you're 'the other senator,'" he joked. As one of the impeachment managers in the House in the late 1990's who tried to remove President Clinton from...
Ibrahim al-Jaafari is no strongman. He speaks so softly that he often seems to be whispering to himself. Even when audible, he can be hard to understand: his vocabulary is drawn heavily from classical Arabic, full of flowery phrases and literary allusions. Although al-Jaafari served as a Vice President in Iraq's interim government, his patrician bearing seems more suited to studying philosophy than engaging in the dirty, dangerous business of Iraqi politics. In a world of tough-guy posturing, al-Jaafari doesn't hide his sensitive side: he bonded with former U.S. proconsul Paul Bremer over their...
...very substantially underrepresented in the National Basketball Association; and that Jews are very substantially underrepresented in farming." LARRY SUMMERS, Harvard University president, in a transcript released last week, comparing these groups with women whom he noted were underrepresented in the academic fields of science and math. He has drawn fire for suggesting that innate differences?as well as social factors?may account for the gender...
...tamarind with truffles, local hawkers were fusing ingredients with aplomb. Nyonya cuisine (Chinese-Malay), Mamak food (Indian-Malay), and kaya toast (English toast with coconut-egg custard) are all fusion foods, doled out daily to office workers for $2 a pop. That's why class-conscious diners are being drawn to less chewed-over culinary styles...