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...including a German air-force general, said it would only make things worse. It was that simple. I'm surprised that Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell and others didn't have that insight. I am afraid the fear of being labeled un-American and soft on terrorism was enough to quiet the voices of many in Washington who knew better. Jim Buckley Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany...
...this common response conceals a much more divided faculty dynamic, including a quiet push for a woman president from several influential female professors who say that Harvard’s old-boy’s-club culture is still resistant to female leadership...
...QUIET PRESSURE?...
Playing “the gender card” only generates resistance against appointing women to leadership positions, the professor says, so she and others believe it’s more effective to lobby for particular female candidates with “quiet pressure” behind the scenes...
Each and every reading period, Lamont Library’s brightly lit, over-heated insides echo with our quiet cursing of all those instructors who had the gall to assign thousands of pages of material, without even pretending to hold us accountable during the term. In short, it’s the perfect time to ask us to fill out course evaluations...