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...Vietnamese prime minister’s four-city tour of the United States brought him this Friday to Boston, where he met with education leaders at Harvard and MIT before encountering protests from the local Vietnamese population...
...Social Networking I-Neighbors www.ineighbors.org The brainchild of a group of students and teachers from MIT, I-Neighbors offers a free and easy way for residents of a given community to exchange information (and maybe even bond). Search by zip code to see if anybody's already created a home page for your neighborhood; if not, you can create your own. It takes just a few minutes to register, and your profile can be as vague or specific as you like. Provide an email address to be included in the directory and to receive group emails. You can add events...
Gray was said to have been nonplussed by the tenure of Neil L. Rudenstine, whose ten-year reign over Harvard she saw as overly passive and lacking in vision. Speaking at commencement ceremonies at MIT in 1995, Gray took what some saw as a veiled swipe at Rudenstine, arguing in lofty rhetoric for more dynamic leadership in higher education: “It is instructive to see how much of the rhetoric having to do with the decline of higher education derives from the language of a larger nostalgia and from romantic visions of a golden age that never quite...
...could be said that his backtracking since the famous incident with the vomiting woman is a sign that his political liberalism is affecting his academic conservatism,” Mansfield says—in an apparent allusion to Nancy Hopkins, the MIT biologist who left Summers’ January speech because, she said, his comments left her physically ill. (Please see story, page...
...NBER conference, the Boston Globe reported that Summers’ remarks “sparked an uproar” with claims of “innate differences” between men and women. His remarks, the Globe reported, prompted Nancy Hopkins ’64, a chemistry professor at MIT, to leave the meeting in disgust...