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...brief aside, Summers compared girls and boys who earn a perfect score on their math SATs. The girls, he said, are more likely to score higher on the verbal portion of the test...
Harvard represented a larger portion of this year’s elected class than any other institution...
...numerous now that if we fail to move the needle for education, the nation’s prospects will be affected,” Cisneros said, highlighting a collective responsibility to improve public education in America. The most prevalent issue during the question and answer portion of the event was immigration reform, and Cisneros presented a “three-part package” consisting of a guest worker program, stricter border controls, and a path to citizenship for workers who have been successful in the United States. “If we don’t figure...
...dining hall and discovered at the end of the evening that two of five large flags loaned from the Marshal’s office and used to decorate the walls were nowhere to be found. Members of the group had worried at first that it would take a substantial portion of their budget to replace the Australian and Paraguayan flags that went missing. However, the Office of the University Marshal—which is responsible for arranging the visits of national and international dignitaries to Harvard—recently informed the concerned board members that the flags, despite their fancy...
...Bush’s presidency. One month earlier, then-Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney made moves to restrict funding for embryonic research in the state, but current Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 announced last month that he intends to reverse these funding limitations. A significant portion of Harvard’s stem cell research is privately funded. Many critics of using embryonic stem cells point to adult stem cells as a viable alternative for research, but for neurodegenerative diseases, the scientists at Harvard and Columbia disagree. “No one has been able to differentiate those...