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...complaints I hear, the harder it becomes to ignore them. A Boston Herald reporter working on a story about student reaction to Larry Summers’ unfortunate comments recently asked me what I thought the situation for undergraduate women at Harvard was like, outside the framework of our good President??s position on human nature. I didn’t know how to answer her question...
...become increasingly clear that there will be a battle over Social Security, and someone is going to lose. President George W. Bush and his supporters want to partially privatize Social Security, while most Democrats and some Republicans oppose the president??s misguided plan. Each day, newspapers report on the ebb and flow of the war of words, pundits bickering and economists continuing to snipe at the president??s innumerate advisors. But amidst it all, the confusion and manipulation of Social Security’s facts and figures—present and projected—continue...
Incoming president Matthew J. Glazer ’06 spoke briefly about structural changes to the UC—an issue that outgoing President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 crusaded during his last few weeks as president??and then focused the remainder of his comments on the UC’s responsibility to improve student life...
...percentage of Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) tenure offers going to female scholars has fallen since Summers took office as Harvard’s president??from 36 percent in 2000-2001 to 13 percent last year. Summers had pledged to reverse the downward trend in female tenure offers even before he drew fire for his suggestion last month that “innate differences” between the sexes could help to explain the lack of female scientists at elite institutions...
...lengthy passage on Summers’ “social peccadilloes,” Bradley recounts several tales of the president??s poor table manners, brusque demeanor, and “bizarre habit of falling asleep in public...