Word: peak
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...Harvard in the arts and sciences that go to women has fallen from 37% to 11%. Part of the problem, a group of female professors told Summers in a letter last fall, is that his focus on hiring "rising young scholars" slights women, whose "research careers tend to peak a bit later than men's careers" because of family responsibilities. Many at Harvard were upset last spring when Summers rejected a tenure recommendation for Marcyliena Morgan, a scholar of hip-hop in the African and African-American studies department, prompting her to leave for Stanford. Some Harvard women are worried...
...Fernando Valley, Minkow says he got into scamming at the age of 16 and set up ZZZZ Best in his parents' garage so he could impress girls. "I learned that money brought respect, and it was like a narcotic," he says. "I couldn't live without it." At its peak, ZZZZ Best had 1,400 employees at 23 locations in three states. But the reality was something else: more than 85% of ZZZZ Best's cash flow came from undisclosed loans fronted by organized crime in New York City--all booked as revenue for supposed contracts to renovate distressed housing...
...sophomore said that she has repeatedly spent more than twenty minutes waiting at the bottom of the stairs during peak lunch hours only to finally make it to the top to find no empty tables. “Finding seats is the hardest part,” she said...
...obsession with reporting the conditions of ghetto life to outsiders granted America a great service: NWA’s “F--- Tha Police” exposed police brutality, while Public Enemy brazenly dissed Ronald Reagan by exposing the other side of his policies. This tradition reached its peak in the mid-1990s, when Nas’ Illmatic, the Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready to Die and the Wu-Tang Clan’s Enter the 36 Chambers conveyed vivid street tales, but permeated them with a sense of triumph over abominable conditions. After this pinnacle, gangsta...
...seems a good time to recall that story: the current No. 1, Roger Federer, has just hired a coach, and the one he's chosen is none other than Sydney-based Roche, now 59. But there's a key difference between Lendl and Federer. Even at his peak the Czech had weaknesses - clunky volleys, a sulky countenance - that kept Roche busy. Federer, on the other hand, has scarcely a limitation, let alone a flaw. He is, at 23, as complete a player as even the sport's ancients can recall. "I play a classical game," says the graceful Swiss, smiling...