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...Faculty divided against itself, its Dean, and its President cannot be expected to maintain its position at the forefront of academia. Consequently, we see the more civil tone at Tuesday’s emergency meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) as an overwhelmingly positive sign that circumstances are beginning to improve for the entire University. Yet deep divisions remain, and steps must be taken to ensure that faculty discontent does not rear its ugly head in another dramatic explosion...
Grosz has stood at the forefront of University efforts to encourage female graduate students and junior professors in the sciences since 1991, when the FAS Standing Committee on Women—which she chaired—warned in a high-profile report that the rise in the number of women in senior faculty positions would grind to a halt unless Harvard made a concerted effort to attract and retain female scholars...
...question, if Bush is so committed to this vision, why has he not acted where he could have already? Why did he abandon the mission in Liberia? Where is the democratic institution building in Haiti? What about military intervention in Sudan? This also, of course, brings to the forefront concerns about how readily Bush violated Iraq’s sovereignty without the support of the global community—a trend that could not continue if this larger mission were to ultimately be successful. For some, Bush’s troubled relationship with the truth and his checkered past...
Melissa E.B. Franklin is used to being at the forefront of particle physics: Discover Magazine described her as one of “the most important women in science” in November 2002. But earlier this week, Franklin, who holds the Mallinckrodt chair in physics at Harvard, found herself at the cutting edge of the English language when—in an interview with the Boston Globe—she described University President Lawrence H. Summers’ remarks on women in science as a “resignable thing...
...there is hope. For the first time, black artists are at the global forefront of popular culture. According to Forbes magazine, the hip-hop “nation” consists of approximately “forty-five million hip-hop consumers between the ages of 13 and 34” and wields about $1 trillion in spending power. Visionary artists and entrepreneurs recognize that hip-hop has become a force for wielding real social, political, and economic power across race and class lines...