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In the aftermath of his controversial comments on women in science last year, Summers turned to Faust to lead the development of a University-wide diversity initiative, which ultimately resulted in a $50 million pledge to promote females and minorities.
A member of the Cambridge Public Schools Committee compared a Mass. law mandating that children in public schools recite the pledge of allegiance every day to a “post-9/11 ultra patriotism push”—and refuses to recite it himself before bi-weekly...
Luc Schuster, a first-term Committee member, said yesterday that the pledge complicates the mission of public schools.
“I think a mandatory pledge of allegiance really sort of contradicts the mission of public schooling,” he said.
Putin's policies were best summed up last Saturday by Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri commenting on Putin's pledge last week to invite the radical Palestinian group to Moscow: "It will represent a division in the Western position led by the U.S."