Word: gapping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...teach in related areas. Heineman will leave G.E. at the end of the calendar year and assume his new position at Harvard on Feb. 1. David B. Wilkins, director of the Program on the Legal Profession, said that one of the goals of the program is to bridge the gap between academia and the professional world by bringing back experienced practitioners, like Heineman, to relate their experiences. “One of Harvard’s unfortunate problems is that we do not do a very good job of addressing issues that touch on many domains,” Wilkins...
...wrote in an e-mail. In most parts of the world, the number of newborn girls has roughly equaled the number of newborn boys. But historically there has been a pattern of gender imbalance in China—and over the past 20 years that gap has widened dramatically. There are now 1.07 boys born for each girl in China, compared to a ratio of 1.05 in the West. Given the size of the world’s population, a 0.02 difference can translate into millions of people. According to authors like Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen, as many...
...effects that it has on the public dominated a speech given yesterday at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) by Michael A. Massing ’74, contributing editor for the Columbia Journalism Review and the New York Review of Books. The speech, entitled “The Glaring Gap in Press Coverage of Iraq,” explored the main areas that Massing said get little coverage in the press—including the U.S. military’s checkpoint strategy, the use of convoys, and the counter-insurgency strategy of the U.S. Massing, the author...
Enter Peter Okaalet, 52, a physician who decided in the late 1980s to go to seminary in an attempt to bridge the gap. From his base in Nairobi, where he serves as Africa director for a Christian medical-assistance group called MAP International, Okaalet has spent the past 12 years working with ministers--and by extension their congregations--to refine and in some cases redefine their response to AIDS. To that end he has run countless seminars in Kenya and elsewhere and helped establish master's degree programs in pastoral care and HIV/AIDS at 14 seminaries and Bible colleges...
...membership now stands at around 200. This year, they’ve already put on a successful “Put Some Style in Your Career” event with the Office of Career Services (OCS), which brought marketing executives and recruiters from companies like Abercrombie and Fitch, The Gap, and Liz Claiborne to campus. Once they’re done with this year’s Haute, Vestis will get started on plans for next spring’s career panel and lecture series. The founders work hard to fight against perceptions that a fashion club is not serious...