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...another way for them to make chicken salad out of something you are now allowed to say in prime time. They could call off the decency crusade. They could say it's a good thing to protest idiotic crudity--on the radio, on TV or on the Senate floor--but to legislate against it is another matter. They could embrace the civil libertarians to whom they inadvertently handed...
...Britt accumulated first-hand experience in the financial world through summer internships. As a rising junior working at Bank of America, she observed that there was just one woman on a 20- to 30-person cash equities trading floor. “I never felt discriminated against,” Britt says, but she did begin thinking about ways to give women more opportunities in a “male-dominated” industry...
...Bilmes says there are 18 congressional bills on the floor related to her recommendations and that she is optimistic that her recommendations will eventually materialize into legislation...
Stagehands scurried around the Barker Center in mid-February with potted plants and a flashy red banner in hand. Inside the first-floor Thompson Room, the stage was being set for the afternoon’s main act: President-elect Drew G. Faust. Flanked by members of Harvard’s governing boards, and with John Harvard and a former Radcliffe president looking down from the wood-paneled walls, Faust took the national spotlight for the first time as Harvard’s next leader...
...poisoned debate in national politics is nothing new. During the last four years, politicians on both sides of the aisle have exchanged vitriolic and largely baseless insults. Two of the most egregious involved Senator Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) comparing George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler on the floor of the Senate, and Congresswoman Jean Schmidt (D-Ohio) calling Congressman John Murtha (R-Penn.), a decorated former Marine, a coward...