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...word transcript generally confirms previous accounts of the speech, in which Summers suggested “issues of intrinsic aptitude” might be responsible for the underrepresentation of female scientists. In the remarks, Summers said he was deeply skeptical of discrimination as a possible cause of the phenomenon...
...even in kindergarten,” writes Sarah Talkovsky ’06, in an e-mail. By the time college acceptance letters arrived, it was second nature to ignore people shouting the name in public. Having desensitized ourselves, we hopped on planes to Cambridge, blissfully unaware of the phenomenon we were about to encounter...
...worried that the families that need the most support are least able to ask for it. "The standards about what makes a good parent are always changing," notes Annette Lareau, a professor of sociology at Temple University, who views all the demand for parent involvement as a relatively recent phenomenon. "And it's middle-class parents who keep pace...
doubt the science behind global warming claims. “Nobody knows how much of the present warming trend might be man-made,” Crichton writes. “Nobody knows how much of the present warming trend might be a natural phenomenon...
Even more disturbingly, I suspect that this is not simply a phenomenon in the sciences. Economics majors obsess about consulting and banking jobs, government majors go to great lengths to foster connections and even history majors obsess early and often about the LSATs. Harvard now spews out so many pre-meds, pre-laws, pre-bankers, pre-politicians and pre-consultants. In this world of “pre’s”, it seems that we’re at a loss for students...