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Never one to be a traitor, I try to defend my sex as best I can. But the more 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...
Harvard and Radcliffe’s dynamic responded to national events. First, the school shut down in reaction to the Tet Offensive of 1968. Then, in the spring of 1969, students took over University Hall in a labor protest. Final exams were cancelled. Classes stopped meeting. Studying became a struggle...
...workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams. Richard Greene San Rafael, California, U.S. You reported that scientists have found that going for more than 20 hours without sleep significantly impairs a person's cognitive abilities and reaction times, producing a functional level as bad as if one had a blood-alcohol level of 0.08. Perhaps those scientists should talk to their colleagues who run medical-residency programs that require 24- to 36-hour shifts. Sleep deprivation might contribute to medical mistakes, leading to malpractice lawsuits and higher malpractice insurance...
...clear, I admit to knowing little about the topic on which Larry was commenting, and I know that, as a man, my opinion will always have to be a working hypothesis informed by listening. My initial reaction was that he was wrong. But in many fundamental ways, before the Larry brouhaha I was probably a lot like most people on campus and in the progressive community, some general leanings based on an observation here or an article there but without a fully developed understanding of this particular issue...
...Airbus' reaction to the 787, meanwhile, has been baffling. At first, Forgeard was quoted as dismissing Boeing's new plane as a "Chinese copy" of Airbus' similar A330. But last December, Airbus abruptly shifted and said it would build a derivative plane called the A350. Boeing spins the A350 as a sign of lost confidence in the A380. In an interview last month, Boeing's Stonecipher pointed to another European government-backed plane that never made a profit and has been grounded. "The A380 is a great engineering success, but so was the Concorde. The A380 could be a market...