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After Tuesday’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting, several individuals contacted the editorial board, requesting to pen their own opinions on the tension between the Faculty and University President Lawrence H. Summers. Interestingly, the feedback that The Crimson received—both the op-ed submissions and letters to the editor—overwhelmingly voiced support for both Summers and the comments he made on women and science at a recent conference of the National Bureau of Economic Research. In seeking to balance the opinions on the page, we contacted several professors who were some...
...born Guan Moye?his pen name means "Don't Speak"?isn't afraid to speak his mind, though sometimes to the point of numbness. In case you didn't notice, Big Breasts' women are strong, its men?and the society they run?are, like Jintong, "useless, worse than useless." That would be a subversive message in China if it weren't for a familiar proverb favored by Mao Zedong: "Women hold up half the sky." With Mo Yan and his sprawling, energetic novel pleading their case, they may finally get some credit...
...poetry, a form invented, and some say perfected, by men (the pen is still supposed to be a metaphorical penis, feminists argue) changing mores have chased guys away from the humanities. In high school, talking about books means talking about feelings: you know, love, despair and loneliness, not to mention race and gender and, uh-oh, are we supposed to be drawing insights about ourselves here? Stop! Stop! That’s so…gay. Or wussy. Or whatever word is currently a substitute for “non-masculine.” Although my brother developed a crush...
...outdone, Sandel turned to Summers and said, “I’m not against private property. Now may I have my pen back...
...medical understaffing and under-stocking of Abu Ghraib were felt most acutely after the prison came under shelling by insurgents. A doctor who served there recalled an attack last April when a mortar landed on an outdoor pen holding prisoners, killing at least 16 outright and wounding more than 60. Former prison personnel described how those attacks produced pandemonium, with panicked prisoners seeking treatment from what were at times very few, poorly equipped medical workers. "When somebody died, we just took out their chest tube and inserted it into another, living person," said National Guard Captain Kelly Parrson, a physician...