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...upsets. In order to try and push legislation past the G.O.P.'s frequent filibusters, they have laid on the pressure, particularly on the four Republican incumbents from states trending Blue. The four - Maine's Susan Collins, New Hampshire's John Sununu, Gordon Smith of Oregon and Norm Coleman of Minnesota - are constantly on the spot, whether it's because of near-weekly votes on President Bush's strategy in Iraq or popular legislation to expand stem cell research and children's health care. The strategy has forced some defections, such as Collins and Coleman on Iraq and Sununu on children...
...Marshall, the Sheldon. It wasn’t even a question of competing; they just simply would not have accepted an application from a woman.” She continues, “I think the basic fact of our existence was that Radcliffe students were not the norm. We were the deviation from the norm...
...scholar who works in a discipline (history) and a sub-field (Civil War history) largely dominated by men, Faust knows what it is like to deviate from the norm. Perhaps that accounts for her capacity to take Harvard’s peculiar folkways in stride. In that 2001 speech, she cautioned the entering class not to be afraid to question what they saw. “When you hear—in this most wonderfully tradition-bound institution—that something is because it has always been that way, take a moment to ask which of the past?...
...Drew Faust is the first Harvard president since 1672 who does not have a degree from this University. In the end, that deviation from the norm may be as noteworthy as her sex. Like other dynamic institutions, Harvard thrives by embracing achievements made elsewhere. We have a lot to learn from other colleges and universities, other approaches to education, and even other schools within our own university. We also have a great deal to learn from history, even when it makes our past presidents appear merely human...
Still, though you won’t hear John Madden say that you have to pass to win the game, offensive balance is the accepted norm. In the Ivy League this season, only two teams are straying outside of a 60-40 percent breakdown of run and pass. Cornell is at 61 percent pass; the other team is Yale, which has vaulted up to No. 16 in the I-AA poll with a blistering 4-0 start. The Bulldogs are at 76 percent...