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Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan announced in November that the military could not use the law school’s recruiting resources until the Pentagon signed a pledge promising not to discriminate against gay and lesbian employees. The military, which discharges openly gay servicemen under its ?...
“I had hoped to stimulate research on many interrelated factors that bear on women’s careers in science,” Summers wrote yesterday. He also reiterated his pledge to push hard for increased recruitment of female faculty members.
All of which explains why rank-and-file Republicans on Capitol Hill--who haven't forgotten how they used to get clobbered for entertaining even modest Social Security changes--aren't exactly storming the microphones to pledge their unconditional support for anything that would change the basic outlines of this...
“I would like to see a pledge from the administration to move the library into the priority record for funding, because the library is the lifeblood of every intellectual pursuit in the University,” Coleman said after the meeting.
The U.S. has given few clues as to which projects it will support. So far, it has spent $66 million on immediate relief, like bags of rice and medical supplies, as well as $50 million in military aid, covering helicopters, cargo planes and help from troops on the ground. (Most...