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...almost impossible to talk about it," said Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster, "without being smeared by it." Reaction to the verdict raised the familiar visage of the Angry White Male (now joined by the Angry White Female, outraged by the jury's soft-pedaling of domestic abuse). "The verdict is going to play out in the subconscious minds of critical groups," he said, like the white working class, defined as couples earning about $25,000 a year, the same voters who shifted from the Democrats to the Republicans in 1994. Such voters may see the verdict as a form...
...women to his blunt and divisive leadership style and his opaque administrative structure. Almost without exception, these critiques were justified. President Summers’ missteps reflect a consistent lack of judgment in his dealings with Harvard faculty and the wider world. The faculty’s vehement reaction to Summers at Tuesday’s meeting was not a consequence of any single error in his judgment, but rather to a chain of mistakes extending throughout his time at Harvard...
...itself to the extremes—resignation or revolution—it can’t reduce the esteemed University Hall attendees to an intellectual lynch mob, and it certainly shouldn’t seek out spectacle by advertising its intentions well in advance. Tuesday was not an emotional reaction; it was well-executed plan, and as such it is inexcusable...
Richard A. Posner does not impute nefarious motives to researchers conducting high-energy particle collision experiments. But in his latest book, Catastrophe, Posner does suggest that one of these experiments could trigger a “strangelet scenario”—a chain reaction that will condense the entire Earth into a tiny ball just 100 meters in diameter...
...first reaction is that I’m sad to see him go,” said junior goalkeeper Katie Shields, who will serve as one of Harvard’s two captains next season. “Without him, I wouldn’t be here. I’m happy for him in his promotion, but I personally am a little...