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...anything. Even if they know you, they’ll just walk by. It’s kind of awkward,” Williams says. While in uniform, they are rarely targeted by any overtly critical comments, the cadets say. But they have to grapple with implicit attitudes about the military. Waterman thinks Americans who call soldiers “baby killers” or “murderers” are missing the point. What the soldiers are fighting for, she says, are American freedoms, like the freedom of speech that allows citizens to criticize the military...
...only one business—training young men for deployment into the ministry. And it wasn’t overnight that it transformed into the famously secular research university we know today. Rather, the movement gathered momentum gradually, propelled by intellectual leaders who, while using Christianity as an implicit foundation, believed above all in the advancement of scientific and academic knowledge.For the Puritans who founded the College, separating God from academia was unthinkable. “The whole notion of a secular entity was unheard of,” says Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes.Indeed, Harvard?...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ implicit message for the next president is to be a soft-soaping glad-hander, avoid controversial topics, and stick to a politically correct ideology which won’t offend the fragile egos in your midst. Raise money, wear the suit well, and fly under the radar, and my hunch is you’ll be their hero...
...only two are women. While the hiring rates for jobs in many sectors have finally begun to look gender-neutral, the discrimination gap remains strong when it comes to promotion—even among candidates with similar performance marks and equivalent hours logged. As sociological studies increasingly point to implicit biases, acknowledging that these trends exist is the first step in driving real change. Being able to talk about them here would be a godsend for those interested in promoting women’s equality. Where else will you find such a collection of intelligent, passionate people who are going...
...while we were in the Swiss mountains, Hamas won a landslide - and thoroughly unpredicted - victory in the Palestinian elections, overturning established patterns in the Middle East and demanding hurried improvisation in Washington. Last week's State of the Union speech by President George W. Bush was full of implicit reminders that the U.S cannot always bend elemental forces to its will. Even the mighty U.S. economy cannot simply shrug off a doubling of the price of oil in two years, especially since - as Bush said - oil is "often imported from unstable parts of the world." Bush may describe Iran...