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From coaching to support staff, opportunities for women to join the staffs of college athletic departments dropped from 31.5 percent to 30.8 percent, while opportunities for people of color decreased from 10.9 to 10.6 percent, according to the Institute??��s 2004 “Racial and Gender Report Card: College Sports” study...
...said.Many of the newly appointed fellows were equally enthusiastic.Melina Pappademos, an assistant professor of history at the University of Connecticut, said in an e-mail that she was honored to be one of the new fellows. “This is as much due to the Institute??��s reputation of excellence in recovering the intellectual traditions, cultural production, political activism, and global impact of Africans and their descendants as to Harvard’s breadth of research materials,” she wrote. “I also appreciate the fellowship program structure, which encourages engagement and intellectual...
...shown that human survival could come into question as unstable and unpredictable weather conditions plague the planet. But Schrag’s findings are not without controversy. Some scientists, such as Willie Soon, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and a senior scientist at the Marshall Institute??��which is funded by Exxon Mobile and other private interests—suggest that the current climatic change is a natural phase in climate history, rather than induced by carbon emissions. But Schrag disagrees with this line of thought, which in recent years has countered environmentalists?...
...vice president of government relations and community develpoment at the Venetian. “They want to know how they can help people learn more responsible behavior.” It’s hard not to be skeptical about such benevolence, but Christine J. Reilly, the HMS addiction institute??��s executive director, insists that these casinos really do mean well. “They know they don’t make that much money off of addicted gamblers, and they know that not everyone can use their product responsibly,” said Reilly...
...Dozens [of legislators] changed their vote because of the availability of the new amendment—it’s better,” said Evelyn Reilly, the Institute??��s director of public policy. “I think we should be able to get the [petition] signatures handily...