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...described by 300th Anniversary University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in a discussion of her most recent book, “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History,” at the Harvard Book Store on Tuesday night. In the book, the titular one-liner-cum-maxim serves as a focal point for what Ulrich describes as the “renaissance in historical scholarship that began with the women’s movement in the 1960s and 1970s” and changing definitions of what it means for a woman to “make history.” FROM...
Player To Watch: Robert Irvin, junior quarterback. Irvin will be the focal point in new coordinator Bill Schmitz’s spread attack...
Still, St. Andrews has become the focal point of a boom in extravagant American-financed developments in Scotland. Seven are in the works, including a $500 million development in Aberdeenshire by Donald Trump, who claims, with characteristic Trumpian restraint, that he will build "the best golf course in the world." He told TIME that his project is not a follower of this trend but rather its cause: "I think I've done a lot to help put Scotland...
...With colleges and their attorneys struggling to develop emergency mental health protocols that clearly establish who can be told what information and when, many campuses are trying to improve awareness of-and responses to-early warning signs that a student may be in psychological distress. One focal point has been residential advisors (RAs), the older students or junior faculty members who live in dorms alongside students. The University of Nebraska at Lincoln has been implementing a policy where a mental health professional is placed as a live-in member of every dorm on campus. In addition, RAs are trained...
...remains merely the most urgent of a wide range of challenges to global stability. While it can only be glimpsed, an end to the debacle in Iraq does not mean an end to America's responsibilities in the world. With the U.S. drawing down, Iraq would diminish as a focal point of anti-Americanism. With most U.S. troops exiting the region, Washington would have more leverage with Iran, which has continued its march toward nuclear weapons while the U.S. has been bogged down in Iraq. And most important of all, the U.S. would regain the military, economic and intellectual bandwidth...