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...intrinsic aptitude” might partially explain the dearth of females in science and engineering fields. “You can imagine that I was a little bit puzzled as to what I should say in speaking to a conference on women in leadership,” Summers joked at the beginning of his remarks. Grasping a tightly leashed microphone while casually leaning against a podium, Summers appeared comfortable with the audience of nearly 100 people, speaking without notes and cracking the occasional joke during his half-hour-long remarks. Summers said that since January 2005, when he delivered...
...According to court documents filed Wednesday in Alabama, Russell Lee DeBusk Jr., 19, Benjamin Nathan Moseley, 19, and Mathew Lee Cloyd, 20, say they set five small, isolated churches about 50 miles southwest of their Birmingham homes ablaze Feb. 3 as a joke after a night of deer hunting and drinking. Then they set four similar churches on fire Feb. 7 some 100 miles west of Birmingham to try to throw investigators off any clues. Instead, identical tire tracks from Cloyd?s Toyota 4Runner ultimately led investigators to the threesome. Moseley, Cloyd and DeBusk are all being held on federal...
...favorite stars without having to donate any money to the Democratic Party.? He told the audience that, to many people, Hollywood was ?a moral black hole, where innocence is obliterated in an endless orgy of sexual gratification and greed.? (Pause for gentle laughter.) ?I don?t really have a joke here. I just thought you should know a lot of people are sayin? that...
...right of the net, Sifers scored her second goal of the game. “[Sifers] is a rock star and she does everything we ask her to,” Stone said. “She ripped it. We call her Snipes, and its kind of a joke, but that was a snipe today—that last shot was a great shot.” The first period looked anything but sharp for both teams—especially Harvard, which struggled to take accurate shots, clear the puck, and keep the puck in the zone. Clarkson took...
...Sifers took a feed from classmate and linemate Liza Solley and streaked across the blue line before uncorking the game-winner that eluded Golden Knights netminder Kira Hurley. "She's a rock star," Stone said of Sifers. "She ripped it. We call her Snipes. It's kind of a joke, but that was a snipe today. That last shot was a great shot." Sifers, an incredibly fast and well-conditioned skater, became a prime candidate to notch the golden goal as the game wore on. “We’ve been to overtime so many times this year...