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...bulletin arrives halfway into the panel on progressive candidates, an email missive I read over the shoulder of the guy in front of me: "I saw Markos and Atrios wandering around looking for food." As the men behind the nation's two most influential liberal blogs - dailykos.com and atrios.blogspot.com - Markos Moulitsas Zuniga and Duncan Black draw interested stares, small crowds and quiet, admiring gossip from the bloggers, lurkers and activists gathered here at the Riviera. They are the Brangelina of Yearly...
...televisions around the room. Friday night, former Virginia governor and potential 2008 contender Mark Warner is pouring the booze. New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, also a rumored presidential possibility, plies them with a breakfast of stale pastries - a poor offering, perhaps, but he?s also on a Yearly Kos panel. As is Clark...
...glorious burdens of its past. Affirmative action wins verbal praise from the University, but most of the women who go to the Faculty Club are still guests. Theda Skocpol, an award-winning sociologist, was turned down for tenure here; she filed a grievance, a three-member panel heard her case, and then ruled that indeed there was evidence of gender discrimination. Others have suggested prejudice against junior faculty and intellectual bias played parts in the denial of tenure. Now it’s up to Harvard, and for once the University must respond with actions and not words. Skocpol...
...women and minority faculty candidates has violated federal affirmative action hiring codes, a complaint still pending with the Department of Labor. Last week, the school finally began to act. Administrators announced they will include students on the school’s three admissions committees—as a student panel had requested. And they revealed they will soon hire a female associate professor, the highest-level female faculty member in the school’s history. Admirable as these moves are, they can only be first steps. Even with the hiring of Mary Jo Bane, the school still will have...
...McDonald writes in an e-mail. “There was a sense of focus and purpose.”A VOCAL ROLEIn September, for the first time, a major public statement emerged from the group. About two dozen former and current department heads wrote to the six-member panel charged with finding a replacement for Conrad K. Harper [see page 11], who had stepped down from the Harvard Corporation due to disagreements with Summers. The chairs spoke of “the atmosphere of mistrust and suspicion that has been created over the past four years?...