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...showdown of the sexes on Friday, Johnstone Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker and Professor of Psychology Elizabeth Spelke debated whether innate differences lead to the underrepresentation of tenured women in math and the sciences...
...Omelette and a Glass of Wine by Elizabeth David (Viking; $18.95) is a collection of essays with some recipes. The London-based food writer has gathered 35 years of provocative thoughts about French, Italian and other Mediterranean cooking, along with perceptive, literate pieces on English cuisine, all of which have appeared in assorted publications. To those who suggest that food critics spend too much time carping, David answers, "Does a theatre critic offer his readers indiscriminate praise of every play . . . he has seen during the week . . .? To be attacked for declining to say, whether in private or in public, that...
Although women composers are still a distinct minority, Zwilich feels that times are slowly changing. As evidence, she cites such composers as Joan Tower and Elizabeth Larson and says, "In the arts, once the door is open, the door stays open." An unabashed feminist, Zwilich supports the concept of all-women concerts. "I'd love to see the necessity for them simply vanish," she says. "But the reality is they are still needed...
Following this exploratory composition, the Dance Program presented Elizabeth Bergmann’s “Saudades.” In another dance that combined the seemingly ill-fitting, three dancers, two clad in red dresses not inappropriate for salsa-dancing, performed a kind of stilted sexy salsa step while—not a meringue mix—but a classical piano soundtrack stuttered in the background...
...Given the talent at Harvard, I figured I wouldn’t be any kind of academic star here, so I really took off the grade point pressure,” said Elizabeth W. Carlisle ’06, a folklore and mythology concentrator. “I came in with a commitment to learn and enjoy my classes, to take advantage of being around people who were smarter than me, and the grade point just happened...