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...potential candidates,” she said then.But unlike the corporate world, most successful candidates for university presidencies come from the outside. Internal candidates cannot match the “romantic allure” of an outsider, says McLaughlin, the expert on presidential transitions.A woman or minority could gain the presidency, which would be a first for Harvard. But other factors will also likely play a role in the committee’s decision, such as age and alumni status.“What would it mean for Harvard to appoint a non-Harvard alum? What would it mean...
...writes in an e-mail.She was one of three freshmen to be elected to The Crimson in 1964. She later rose to be the paper’s features editor and the editor of the Confidential Guide, a review of courses published by The Crimson. But she was unable to gain admission to the Signet, the arts and letters society that included many Crimson editors at the time, and she says that fact “really rankled” her. The Signet first opened its doors to female members in 1970, two years after Greenhouse’s graduation.Outside...
...thereafter, the number of women undergraduates was nearly on par with the number of male college students. Women who were born in 1891, for instance, were slightly more likely to attend some college than men born that same year—though these women were significantly less likely to gain a bachelor’s degree. By the mid-20th century, parity was a thing of the past, and male college graduates outnumbered females by a two-to-one margin.But by 1980, parity was back, marking “the homecoming of American college women,” as Harvard...
Researchers realized decades ago that high blood pressure is a cardiovascular danger signal. They don't understand the exact mechanism yet, but physicians think elevated pressure puts a strain on blood vessels, causing them to tear or develop weak areas where plaque can gain an easy foothold. Hypertension (to use the technical term) can also force small blood vessels to burst like an overstressed garden hose; if that happens in the brain, it's called a stroke--the other major cardiovascular killer besides heart attack...
...letter, Sheikh Sherif argues that the warlords have duped the U.S. government for its own gain. "The present conflict has been fueled by the wrong information given to the U.S. Government by these warlords," he writes. "Their expertise is to terrorize people and they were able to use it and terrorize the American government by misinforming them about the presence of terrorists in Somalia...