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...graduate student level, this meant the baby problem began to get traction, according to Christine D. Wenc, a History of Science grad student who was particularly active in the parent community at the time of Summers’ remarks. The statistics were telling: nationwide, women with children are less likely to enter the tenure-track, less likely to receive tenure, and more likely to leave academia entirely than their childless or male counterparts. And surveys at Harvard and elsewhere suggest that students with children, and particularly women, can face a discouraging environment. In a 2008 survey of the University?...
...public is outraged at some level, but not deeply enough...The prisoners are not connected to our society due to racial, socioeconomic, and educational disparities,” Gawande said. “The average inmate is not a person you would run into in daily life. I think it would disturb us or be difficult to stomach putting people we grew up with in solitary isolation...
Current Law School Dean Martha L. Minow has also been raised as a possible candidate, according to Bloomberg. But Tushnet said he thinks it is “unlikely” that Minow would be chosen because Kagan has had “some bathing in high-level practice” that would make her a more likely contender...
...officials stress the fact - and it is a fact - that both the number of terrorism attacks and the overall death toll have decreased to a level not seen since just after the March 2003 invasion. But statistics are cold comfort when the latest explosion has leveled a nearby building. Surviving yet another attack leaves Iraqis raw and emotional and angry. "We think they are still under the ruins, kids and young boys," says Jasim Talib Khalil, 43, a father of four who lives in the north-central Alawi neighborhood, close to the National Museum, near a bombed apartment building with...
...responsible stakeholder have failed not least because China is ambivalent about the international system as it's currently construed. Even if we could solve the laundry list of perplexities we confront - trade, currency, Tibet, Taiwan - the main problem would linger. So only a solution that functions at the strategic level offers any hope of a durable arrangement. (See five things the U.S. can learn from China...