Word: provocationã
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...love, and hard to fall in love with. It’s not like the experience of watching a cop show, when we’re relatively willing to accept that it’s perfectly common for detectives to start shooting at people with little to no provocation??and, of course, never to fill out any paperwork...
...Ascherman professor of economics, who organized the conference: “I asked Richard, when he invited me to come here and speak, whether he wanted an institutional talk about Harvard’s policies toward diversity or whether he wanted some questions asked and some attempts at provocation??—and here, ten seconds into the speech, audience members later said they could sense a bomb was about to drop—“because I was willing to do the second and didn’t feel like doing the first...
...admission, Summers came to the NBER conference ready to give a speech with “some attempts at provocation?? rather than “an institutional talk” on Harvard’s policies. He was there, he said, to discuss “the issue of women’s representation in tenured positions in science and engineering at top universities and research institutions.” Summers presented three hypotheses—predicated in part on research, part on his own observations—to explain the observed underrepresentation of female scientists and engineers...
...that “this [wasn’t] going to work.” My position, aside from being too nuanced (read: informed and accurate), echoed the sentiments of my co-chair too much. It didn’t matter if we were right, ratings require controversy and provocation??and it certainly doesn’t matter if issues are conflated to the point of senselessness. But then came the icing...
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