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...Force has admitted the merit of some of the charges. This month the academy head, Lieut. General John Rosa Jr., who attempted some corrections a year ago, publicly conceded, "I have problems in my cadet wing, I have issues in my staff, and I have issues in my faculty." It might take six years, he said, to change the culture. Yet other allegations are contested, and a congressional fracas over the issue suggests the nation's faith-tinted "culture wars," which have until now spared the armed services, may impact actual warriors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whose God Is Their Co-Pilot? | 6/20/2005 | See Source »

...driving businessman so used to winning and so sure of his judgment that he didn't notice how close his toes had got to the line? Spitzer has been criticized in the business community for overzealousness, and last week brought the first hard evidence that the criticism may have merit: a former Bank of America broker was acquitted in a courtroom test of Spitzer's crusade against the financial industry. That can't help pleasing Greenberg's lawyers. Still, Greenberg's hardheadedness may have invited some of the scrutiny he's under. In the end, his legal and professional predicament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down...But Not Out | 6/13/2005 | See Source »

...people on both sides of the constitutional debate should cite the French Revolution to bolster their case." You should have mentioned a key worry of many French citizens: the "democratic deficit," or the lack of democratic legitimacy of nonelected E.U. bodies, some of which have more authority than they merit. Françoise Blin Vers sur Selle, France The critical issues at stake during the debate on the E.U. constitution included increased unemployment, the loss of social advantages, offshore industries, cheap imports from countries with low labor costs and increased immigration. It was rare, however, that one heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reality Check for the E.U. | 6/13/2005 | See Source »

...March panel, several female professors sharply criticized Summers’ arguments, weighing the merit of claims of social prejudices and biases that may impede women from reaching many tenured positions in top universities over those of innate gender differences in the sciences...

Author: By Tina Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Worlds That Started The War | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

...search process continues to be very rigorous…I think the possibility that standards will suddenly be lowered is very slight,” Ryan writes in an e-mail, addressing possible concerns that special attention to gender diversity would lower standards of merit and scholarship in tenure searches...

Author: By Tina Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Hopes To Up Tenure Offers to Women | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

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