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...this taken together helps explain why, with a man on and Harvard trailing Missouri 11-4 in the sixth inning of an elimination game last Saturday, Joe Walsh called his probable Game 3 starter out of the bullpen in a game that was all-but-decided...
Spurred by their previous research and urged by Summers, who met with the pair last summer, Goldin and Katz have started a project to study the career paths of thousands of Harvard graduates to track and explain any gender gaps in various career fields...
According to the report, the new department would use research in genetics and the evolution of humans, and their close relatives, to help explain “the genetic versus environmental underpinnings” of how people look, act, and function. The department would also study “what selective forces operated at different times in human evolution...
During a Kennedy School of Government forum in May 1980, many women asked Judith B. Walzer—who served as assistant dean of the College for coeducation and the administrator who handles sexual harassment complaints—to explain the obscure policies over reporting sexual harassment...
...Also missing is an attempt to explain Mao's enduring popularity in China. In a conversation with TIME, Chang ascribes that phenomenon to "brainwashing." But nearly three decades after his death, as New China races toward the industrial and military glory of which Mao could only dream, the man remains as well liked as ever. His visage beams benignly across Beijing's Tiananmen Square, long lines of visitors creep past his preserved corpse nearby, and restaurants are decorated with Mao memorabilia. Perhaps in a time of galloping economic modernization and social upheaval, Chinese crave the reassuring continuity provided...