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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...
Though James said he enjoyed cooking for a big crowd, he said that restricting volume during peak hours could benefit everybody...
...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...
...James, who works the grill during peak hours on some weeknights, said he worries that the excessive volume has diminished the quality of food. “The people who live here really suffer,” he said. “The food’s not going to look as good, entrees run out and they’re just left with piecemeal...