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Women aren't the only group that has been alienated by Summers' rough-and-tumble manner. Soon after leaving his post as President Bill Clinton's Treasury Secretary and returning to the Cambridge campus where he earned his Ph.D. and taught economics in the 1980s, Summers questioned African-American studies professor Cornel West's scholarship and teaching, causing West to leave for Princeton and upsetting many in Harvard's African-American community. In a controversy in 2002, Muslims on campus said they were offended when Summers labeled as "anti-Semitic in their effect if not in their intent" the efforts...
...plan impossible to master; Voltaire called it "a labyrinth without a thread." Likewise, while our Constitution opens with a stirring preamble, "We the people ...," it quickly settles into a tedious recitation of items, articles and sections, bulging in their seeming infinity like Harpo Marx's coat pockets, detailing all manner of governmental powers and functions--related to everything from dockyards to coinage. In fairness, how could anyone reasonably expect such a document to compete, in our romantic imagination, with another resounding with trumpet fanfares extolling life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Just as American conversations and American journalism will...
...Though I had conducted things in a very straightforward manner, Tegam did not take my e-mails seriously,” Tena said...
...This case is especially important for the future of computer security,” Tena said. “If they don’t allow people like me to conduct research in this manner, hackers will find a way to find the same things I am finding but actually...
...administrative offices of University Hall has at times been rocky. Perhaps it was inevitable that in hiring and firing so many new and veteran members of the College administration, some feathers would be ruffled. Still, at many points along the way, we have expressed hesitation and uneasiness at the manner in which this restructuring has been carried out; at times the powers that be have seemed to make their restructuring plans up as they go along. However, to be fair, many of our worries have ultimately proven unwarranted. This month’s announcement of two new deans?...