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...Doing a concert is a much more ambitious thing to do," Tapper added. "It's ambitious because it's out of the norm. With 88 Harvard minds I think we can pull this...
...number of tenured women and sixth out of eight in the number of nontenured women faculty. Even considering the small pool of female Ph.D. candidates, Harvard would have to add 17 tenured women and 11 non-tenured women to its Faculty to make female representation consistent with the national norm, according to the University's most recent affirmative action report...
show on drunk driving. The goal of such efforts is "to reflect the evolution of a new social norm...[and] by reflecting those changes they will be adding momentum to those changes," Winsten said...
What Safire carried away from four years in the White House is the self- confidence to intuit how men behave along the corridors of power. Safire may exaggerate the degree to which all administrations cleave to the Nixon norm, but the ability to project his imagination into the White House animates both his columns and his fiction. In 1987 Safire published his second novel, Freedom, a 1,152-page, sprawling and ungainly but nonetheless fascinating reconstruction of the early years of the Lincoln Administration...
...addition to being remote and attenuated, the injury to academic freedom claimed by the petitioner is also speculative. As the EEOC points out, confidentiality is not the norm in all peer review systems... Moreover, some disclosure of peer evaluations would take place even if petitioner's `special necessity' tests were adopted. Thus, the `chilling effect' petitioner fears is at most only incrementally worsened by the absence of a privilege. Finally, we are not so ready as petitioner seems to be to assume the worst about those in the academic community. Although it is possible that some evaluators may become less...