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...this week's cover story, TIME editors assembled a panel of four thinkers-Mark Cuban, an Internet entrepreneur who also owns a basketball team, Andres Martinez, the editor of the Los Angeles Times opinion pages; Steven Johnson, an expert in technology and popular culture; and Caitlin Flanagan, a mother who writes about the American family-to talk about the trends that will shape our future...
...hosted “Leadership 2006” from March 8 to 11, which included a keynote speech by University President Lawrence H. Summers, who spoke on the importance of women’s leadership. However, at the well-attended “Women in Science” panel on Friday, chaired by Evelynn M. Hammonds, professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies and Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity at Harvard, Summers’ name was not mentioned. Hammonds gave a historical account of women in the sciences and indicated that...
...competing without an alias, who came out on top. The contestants went head to head in three rounds of competition. The final round featured two 45-second battles between Mikal N. Floyd-Pruitt ’06 and Liu, with Liu wowing the three-member judging panel. WHRB’s hip-hop department, “The Darker Side,” led by Samuel D.G. Jacoby ’08 and Darius P. Felton ’08, judged the show. Liu won a $50 gift certificate to Massive Records and air-time on WHRB, where he already...
...outfitted in various themed clothes. The shirtless Sigma Alpha Epsilon Juggernauts sported yellow and purple body paint, the Hawaii Club brought the luau, the Mountaineering Club donned bright yellow t-shirts, and the Outing Club saluted Alaska by substituting the state’s flag for their clothes. A panel of “celebrity judges”—the Adams House masters—judged the sleds first on aesthetic appearance. The teams then underwent a time trial over a distance of 1,049 inches, a weight test in which the teams pulled two kegs...
...Harvard’s senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity, a post that puts her in charge of recruiting more female and minority professors—said that the number of African-Americans in hard-science Ph.D. programs had decreased in recent decades. The panel came in the context of a weekend conference sponsored by the BLSA and centered on the theme of empowerment. Kennedy School economist Ronald F. Ferguson said that “empowerment comes from building our human capital and using it for purposes that matter to us.” Law student Amanda...