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Something seemed wrong to Hoxby earlier this year after Summers’ remarks about women in science. She declined comment on her relationship with Summers in an interview last week, but she criticized him during a faculty meeting on Feb. 22 for “break[ing] ties by the hundreds” in the “great shimmering web” of good relationships between members of the Harvard community...
...Zealand English, published last month by Oxford University Press, suggests the flow of Maori into English won't be stopping anytime soon. Kiwi English is not just annexing Maori words, from Pakeha (European) to whanau (extended family). It's giving them English inflections (moko-ed for tattooed; haka-ing for dancing), and playing with them to create hybrids like maka-chilly (from makariri, cold). "You can't get far these days without having to use a Maori word," says Haami Piripi, chief executive of the Maori Language Commission, which promotes the use of te reo. It's a heartening trend...
Rather than granting “permission to go abroad in a kind of passive way” and “wait[ing] for students to come to us and get approval,” says Coatsworth, who is also director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, “we’re very aggressive about both identifying and organizing opportunities abroad...
Thirty major private banks, including U.S. giants Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, and European powerhouses ABN Amro, Barclays, HSBC and ING, have so far signed on to the principles. The guidelines cover some 80% of the global-project-financing market, according to Jon Williams, head of sustainability risk management at HSBC. "Everyone is interested in the balance between sustainability and economic development," says Williams. "We believe you can do well and do good...
...both being forced to terminate their current teaching posts at the end of this year. Gordon, recently tenured by the History Department, will be unable to teach Social Studies because of his new departmental teaching requirements. Watson, who is in his sixth year TF’ing Ec 10, the most popular class at the College, is no longer able to teach because of the College’s six-year teaching limit for non-tenured professors. His resignation will deprive next year’s new Ec 10 professor of a seasoned veteran of the course, and Lowell will...