Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Associate Justice Herbert P. Wilkins '51 in a hearing today to prevent the oath of office from being administered, Newman said. Galluccio, aide to state Sen. Robert D. Wetmore (D-Barre) and a night student at Suffolk University Law School, said he was hopeful McSweeney's court challenge would fail. "I hope the [SJC] will hold the lower courts' decisions and that the [swearing-in] will go forward as planned," he said in an interview yesterday
Harvard has Radcliffe as an invaluable resource for women, which is why it is even more surprising that women are somehow slighted out of the science fields here. Not only do women fail the QRR test more often than their ratio would suggest, but women also constitute a very small number of the upper-level first-year math classes, Math...
...fields without regard to gender. And without the backing and support of their Colleges and Universities and a recognition of female talent, women in math and science are simply not as effective. Although women enter graduate school in the sciences at the same rate as men, a significant number fail to graduate. The reason is not that women are not capable--it is that the female mentors so desperately needed are either not available or easily accessible...
What many self-appointed defenders of the Square fail to realize is that bookstores and coffee houses will always be here. In a college town, book-stores and coffee houses are guaranteed a steady flow of business--so long as they serve their customers well...
...infamous 1991 speech to the incoming class, Kagan, who was then Yale college dean, offered some rare wisdom: it is "both right and necessary to place Western Civilization and the culture to which it has given rise, at the center of our studies, and we fail to do so at the peril of our students, our country, and the hopes for a democratic, liberal society...