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...probe for this essence, officers now pore over transcripts, parse teacher recommendations and consult regularly with high school guidance counselors. Then they gather for closed-door deliberations that range from the celebratory (a budding feminist poet is crowned "the next Anne Sexton") to the snippy ("Her thank-you note to her interviewer looks like a third-grader wrote it"). Rarely, if ever, do these discussions touch on SATs, even for students who turn in 800s. The committee does dwell, however, on other scores, like those on Advanced Placement exams, SAT II's if students submit them and even state tests...
...dignity and singularity of an old Florentine bronze, or a new Brancusi. Today critics might find some unconscious bias in his belief that African art was close to the art of children: instinctive, untutored, vital. And because he thought much the same about art made by women, some feminist theorists might not like him much...
Nelson, a specialist in feminist economics, stated that the neoclassical approach to economics misses out on issues related to women, and the field of economics ignores those who work...
Bertini is a novelty in many other respects. A lifelong self-styled "Republican feminist," she was initially backed by the Administration of George Bush the Elder for the U.N. job, but she also won the endorsement of the Clinton Administration after her first five-year term. Senator Patrick Leahy, a Democrat from Vermont, urged Clinton to keep her in Rome after her first term. "She's shown extraordinary ability with no sign of partisan activity, and as a result, she's been enormously effective," Leahy says. When she took over, Bertini had never been to Africa and did not speak...
...Since the 1980's, the department has been identified by many elements of Harvard as the one having...feminist senior women who are very outspoken, and I do think it's made a kind of backlash...[But] when strong women intellectually congregate in a particular discipline or department, they have to be ready...