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...among us is moved by a complex stew of motives, some admirable and some less so, some conscious and some unconscious. The sin of pride, for example, helps seduce many into goodness. Fear of real life is part of what tempts some into the cloister. And for a small fraction of those youth-serving millions, sexual longing plays a role...
...It’s definitely not going to be overrun by kids,” Stannard-Friel said. “Compared to the undergrads, it’ll just be a small fraction of the event...
...able to steal fissile material—could dwarf the effect of any conventional bomb. Yet a completed missile defense project may cost hundreds of billions before its completion, and the Department of Defense will spend over $7.8 billion just this year. Though securing nuclear facilities requires only a fraction of this money, it has still not been fully funded...
...chose to do English’ but that may be one of the underlying reasons,” Ameer says. Her suggestion plausibly speaks to student experience. About 30 percent of the tenured professors in the English department are women—a considerably greater fraction than in the Faculty of Arts of Sciences (FAS) as a whole—and the proportion of women in the junior faculty is even higher...
...Real World” are attracted to controversy and stories of intrigue, especially where Harvard is placed in awkward and embarrassing situations. But West is not the only eminent scholar to leave Harvard under murky circumstances, and others that have don’t receive even a fraction of the national media attention that West has received...