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These same criticisms apply to Harvard's half-hearted efforts to attract women and minority scholars. Harvard must do more to fill up the pipeline with women and minority graduate students. By making academic professions more attractive to potential scholars, Harvard can help make academia more diverse...
...note of controversy over 350 years of Harvard past. The University archives has refused to release photographs of student protests. And, to provide the perfect backdrop for alumni snap-shots this week, Harvard has scrubbed its walls, trimmed its lawns and even planted several new, fully grown trees to fill in bare spots in the Yard...
Clemente's exploitation of his speed reflects his determination to succeed. This strong work ethic has helped fill the void left by last year's strong senior class--a void which once loomed as wide as the Grand Canyon, but now, thanks to the efforts of a redoubtable rookie, now seems thinner than the Nuggets' playoff hopes...
...instead of grooving and recall the time Eva snapped her ankle on their shag carpet as the two danced to the sound track of Hair). The dance step is typical: Grove is a passionate, if disjointed man. He is a famously tough manager who, late at night, can still fill Intel's offices with a rolling laugh. He is a man who lost most of his hearing when he was young, but who soldiered through the toughest science classes flawlessly by lip reading and compulsive study. (His hearing would later be restored after five reconstructive operations over 20 years...
Just as her grievance charging that DreamWorks stole her ideas for Amistad was getting some traction, novelist BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD got stuck in her own little plagiarism mess. A New York Times reporter doing research on eunuchs (hey, they've got a lot of sections to fill now) discovered that one chapter in Chase-Riboud's Valide: A Novel of the Harem has seven instances--some as many as 600 words in length--lifted directly from a 1936 nonfiction work on harems. Chase-Riboud is continuing her $10 million lawsuit...