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Monday is market day in the Basque town of Guernica, as it was on the afternoon of April 26, 1937, when the Junkers JU52 bombers of the Luftwaffe's Condor Legion arrived. For three hours high-explosive and incendiary devices fell on the town, whose narrow streets were packed with villagers and peasants from the surrounding countryside. Those who managed to flee the firestorm were hunted and strafed by Messerschmitt and Fiat fighter planes. A third of the town's 5,000 residents were killed, mostly children and old people; perhaps another thousand visitors died. Far from the front lines...
...number of females among the ranks of senior faculty, according to a report released June 13 by Evelynn M. Hammonds, the senior vice-provost for Faculty development and diversity.But while professors widely lauded Hammonds for initiating reform of the University’s family policies, some questioned whether the narrow focus fully addressed the problems contributing to a dearth of women in Harvard’s senior ranks.The report, which deals broadly with issues of faculty diversity, is the first to be publicly released by Hammonds’ office, established last July at the recommendation of two task forces...
...only other baby boomer president, Bill Clinton, had it too. In the 1990s, when no one really wanted much from the federal government except favorable tax treatment for our 401(k)s, Clinton would stand before Congress and the TV cameras, he would work his jaw and narrow his eyes, and he would tell the nation with a vigorous thrust of the thumb that the nation faces a "challenge as great as any in our peacetime history". Then, rising to the challenge, he would announce a new initiative to expand family leave...
...first time since Israel evacuated its settlements and army outposts from Gaza last August, the Israeli military is now inside the narrow strip of land...
...suit against Northern Securities eventually landed at the Supreme Court, and Roosevelt won a narrow but crucial victory that opened the way for more aggressive use of the Sherman Antitrust Act in other cases. He also established a Department of Commerce and Labor, which included a Bureau of Corporations to monitor the budding monopolies. Roosevelt endlessly reassured Big Business that he intended merely to keep an eye on its conduct. But he let it be known that he meant business too. Only "the corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government, he once said. Then...