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...fraction of tenure-track offers to women rose slightly, to 39 percent, last academic year.“It’s hard to know whether this is just a one-year blip or whatever,” Martin, the Dillon professor of international affairs, said in a phone interview. “All this shows is that of the offers made last year to men and women, women accepted at a much lower rate than the men.”Harvard has sought in recent years to boost its ranks of women with tenure-track posts—assistant...
...magazine that appears on newsstands Dec. 11 and online the day before. WHO: In the text of your entry, please provide some caption information about what or who is in the picture and when and where it was taken. Please also give us your name, address and phone number so that we can confirm information about the photograph. WHY: Get the chance to be published in TIME! WHEN: The deadline for entries is Nov. 22. Winners will appear in the magazine that appears on newsstands Dec. 11 and online the day before. Click here to e-mail your photos...
...We’re trying to build this Frankenstein phone,” Ur explains, grinning, as he makes plans to construct an elaborate prop...
...believe she owed that much, but it was the threat to take her to court that prompted her call to the debt collectors. She told them that she couldn't pay right then, and they were, shall we say, unsympathetic. So they sent more letters, and made phone calls at odd hours...
...before you get all excited and stop paying your bills, let's talk about how the court reached its decision. In 1977, debt collectors who swore over the phone, pounded on doors, or impersonated cops to extract payments were "a widespread and serious national problem," according to Congress. So it passed the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, which prohibited abuse by collection firms (not creditors) in seeking payment of personal (not commercial) debts. Congress stressed that it wasn't protecting deadbeats, at the time the approximately 4% of debtors who just refused to pay their bills, but the "vast majority...