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...Again and again, she has gone beyond the strict requirements of her position to make outstanding contributions to the quality of teaching and other important activities of the university,” Bok said in the statement. “We all owe her a great debt...
...Theda Skocpol has done a truly remarkable job as dean of the Graduate School," Bok said in a statement on Tuesday. "We owe her a great debt...
...past two years.“Again and again, she has gone beyond the strict requirements of her position to make outstanding contributions to the quality of teaching and other important activities of the university,” Bok said in the statement. “We all owe her a great debt.” In 1980, during Bok’s first stint as Harvard’s president, Skocpol filed a grievance against the University for gender discrimination after she was denied tenure. Bok and then-Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky agreed to review Skocpol?...
...SCHOOL THE HISTORIES By Herodotus We owe most of what we know about Thermopylae--and that line in the movie about fighting in the shade--to Herodotus, the "father of history." In The Histories, he recounts the whole arc of the war with the Persians, whose arrogance proved to be their undoing...
There is something intensely familial about the scandal now engulfing the Bush Administration over the dismissal of eight U.S. Attorneys last year. The key players--Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former White House counsel Harriet Miers, political shaman Karl Rove--all rose from the tight web of Texas loyalists who owe their careers to George W. Bush and followed him to Washington in 2001. Bush even chose a member of his Texas tribe who wasn't implicated, counselor Dan Bartlett, for the task of defending those who were. Said Bartlett of the firings: "All the decisions ... were proper decisions...