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Another of those tools is quality of life. Harvard should offer to all prospective professors--women and men--the provisions necessary to run a family as well as jump-start a career, such as adequate child care and housing with proximity to good schools. Harvard should also make an effort to change this University's atmosphere so it is more welcoming to women professors. Part of that comes from sheer numbers., but a significant part also arises from negative attitudes toward research done by and about women and from a pervasive "old boys" sentiment in which debates over the beer...
LONDON: Labour's landslide election win has Irish Prime Minister John Bruton talking up peace prospects in Northern Ireland. Bruton called for an IRA cease-fire and urged the organization to take advantage of Labour's control of parliament to jump-start talks. "Here, the basic feeling is that there is a new sort of urgency and enthusiasm for trying to restart the peace process," reports TIME's London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. "After being elected last week, Blair seems willing to try new initiatives and arrangements which may bridge the impasse and get the parties talking. The huge majority...
...order to buck this trend, the Crimson must find a way to jump-start its anemic offense, which has managed just four goals in its past three games...
...Europeans have spent more than $2 billion to develop these cars, hoping not only to rekindle the glowing embers of nostalgia but also to jump-start their sagging sales in the U.S. The past decade has not been kind to European companies like BMW and Mercedes, which have had their U.S. revenues run over first by a bad economy and then by Japanese luxury models. "It was not just accidental sheer desire to build a vehicle," says Rick Ford, a senior vice president of Porsche, USA. "With this company we can ill afford an error." Porsche saw its U.S. sales...
...last week, after Clinton valiantly tried to jump-start talks between Israel and the Palestinians, Dole rushed to denounce the President for the failure to reach any substantial agreement. From the sidelines Dole criticized Clinton's "photo-op foreign policy." And then (you guessed it) Dole jetted in from the campaign trail for a 15-minute photo-op of his own with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Afterward, Dole served up this not so penetrating insight: "The most important objective ... is to end the violence. We can stand clearly in support of [the] peaceful resolution of differences," but "the U.S. cannot...