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...raft of recent books have toasted the Founding Fathers--particularly Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence. That open letter to the British Crown gave us our most eloquent enunciation of our belief in individual liberties. But it remains at core a historical document with no legal standing. It is, by contrast, through the Constitution--the governing instrument that Montesquieu inspired and James Madison nominally fathered--that we organize and regulate our hectic American works and days. So why is there so much clinking of fine crystal for Jefferson while Montesquieu has gone missing...
DIED. VIRGINIA MAYO, 84, Hollywood blond of the 1940s and '50s who inspired the Sultan of Morocco to write her a fan letter in which he called her "tangible proof of the existence of God"; in Thousand Oaks, Calif. She played opposite stars from Bob Hope (The Princess and the Pirate) to James Cagney (White Heat) but won her greatest critical acclaim as Dana Andrews' cheating wife in the Oscar-winning World War II drama The Best Years of Our Lives...
...full text of Summers’ letter is available online at www.president.harvard.edu...
Wednesday’s apology came after a letter Summers sent Tuesday night responding to the standing committee in which he wrote that he “had hoped to stimulate research on many interrelated factors that bear on women’s careers in science...
...Take the letter that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Standing Committee on Women sent to Summers on Tuesday. The 19-member group assumed the worst in Summers, writing that the comments “serve to reinforce an institutional culture at Harvard that erects numerous barriers to improving the representation of women on the faculty, and to impede our current efforts to recruit top women scholars...