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...recounts Summers’ now famous dispute with former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, Bradley puts forth new details of the contentious meetings which ultimately led to West’s departure...
When T.S. Eliot, Class of 1910, looked out of his soon-to-be-Eliot House window and saw an imposing icescape of Edwardian poetry, sparkling but frozen in its ways, did he shy away? No. After a few whiskeys in the offices of the Harvard Advocate, he sallied forth and ate the oppressive literary sundae whole, producing Four Quartets several hours later before indulging in a quick Rum Raisin nightcap...
...Summers for his purely academic remarks, draws unfair implications from the speech. Far from implying that women should stop pursuing prestigious academic positions, the possibility that women are on average better than men at some disciplines and worse at others may help explain why Harvard needs to put forth extra effort to encourage women interested in science and to hire women as science professors. This is not an excuse for the low representation of women on the faculty. Quite the contrary. Furthermore, the possibility that the innate differences hypothesis is valid opens up more avenues for research into...
...extremely surprised and disturbed by the uproar,” he said in an interview with The Crimson yesterday. “I did not intend any public discussion of my speech at all, only to stimulate various kinds of statistical research by putting forth hypotheses...
...them. Marketers have picked up on the fact that twixters on their personal voyages of discovery tend to buy lots of stuff along the way. "They are the optimum market to be going after for consumer electronics, Game Boys, flat-screen TVs, iPods, couture fashion, exotic vacations and so forth," says David Morrison, president of Twentysomething Inc., a marketing consultancy based in Philadelphia. "Most of their needs are taken care of by Mom and Dad, so their income is largely discretionary. [Many twentysomethings] are living at home, but if you look, you'll see flat-screen TVs in their bedrooms...