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...Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. Feb. 9 2:38 a.m.—An officer was dispatched to take report of an assault at Dunster Street in Cambridge. The officer arrived and spoke to the victim who stated that while walking in the area an unknown individual crossed their path and started making hand gestures about the reporting party being in their way. The reporting party stated that the unknown individual punched them in the mouth with a closed fist and then fled the area. Due to the injuries from the assault the victim was transported to a medical facility...
...contrast to the leadership style of Summers, who often spoke freely on political topics of the day, Faust said that she would use the presidency as a pulpit to influence higher education. The path Harvard sets “helps to define the character and meaning of the universities of the 21st century,” she said...
...university in the process of aggressively expanding research, FAS professors interviewed yesterday praised the way she nurtured science as dean.“She’s done a good job at bringing scientists into the Radcliffe Institute,” Hochschild said. “The path of least resistance would have been to make that a humanities and social sciences institution.”When Faust took over Radcliffe in 2001, the school was still trying to redefine itself after more than a century as a women’s college. Now, the Institute for Advanced Study receives...
...instances of past discrimination in academia and the professional world by encouraging students to explore fields outside of those prescribed previously by gender, ethnicity, or race. But Lewis said that the hope of achieving this goal may sometimes stand at odds with attempts to respect and support the desired path of each individual student. “There is a very fine line between putting pressure on an individual student to be a servant of some statistic that you hope will change over time and helping students figure out who they really are,” Lewis said...
Thus the more Obama tries to avoid offending particular groups with “safe” arguments, the less likely it is that he will be able to sustain enthusiasm among his core followers. It would be a shame if he took this path; of all the candidates, Obama has the greatest ability to excite liberals with politically strong and courageous positions and still maintain the support of moderate Democrats and Independents. Indeed, I strongly believe that, if elected, Obama has great potential to unify this divided nation and become one of America’s truly great presidents...