Word: problem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today is just another day: coats zipped against the wind, readings furiously skimmed before section, the relentless click of e-mail and problem sets in the basement of the Science Center. There are papers due, office hours to go to, sleep that approaches unseen in the Lamont reading room or in lecture, but nothing terribly out of the ordinary. Another day, its stresses and triumphs, awakes to its own promise...
...roots of this problem--like Harvard's difficulties hiring women at the same high levels--lay in the demographics of academia in general and Harvard's tenured faculty in particular...
Besides the traditional excuse that academia--and especially the rarified ranks of Harvard's tenured faculty--have lacked suitable minority candidates for administrative posts, officials also point to other reasons for this problem...
Narayanamurti says Harvard's first problem is that it doesn't do enough to recruit minority and women faculty members...
...Part of the problem decoding what happened in the cockpit is cultural. NTSB officials readily conceded late Monday that even after multiple translations, the final conversation in cockpit of Flight 990 wasn't fully comprehensible to the investigators in Washington. Understanding what passed between the pilot - who'd returned to the cockpit after an unexplained absence to find the plane in a death plunge - and whichever crew member had put the Boeing 767 into its final maneuver requires a nuanced, idiomatic interpretation that would require Egyptian analysis. In the meantime, Mr. Freeh may be wishing that Mulder and Scully were...