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...Sanders Theatre this weekend, one year after the president attracted a far frostier reception. Last year’s speech to Harvard parents visiting Cambridge for Junior Parents Weekend was marked by an unusually contentious question-and-answer session focused almost entirely on Summers’ January 2005 remarks on women in science. But on Friday, a visibly supportive audience greeted the president with warm applause and posed friendly questions following his speech. One father, positing that the president’s Feb. 21 resignation was at odds with the University’s commitment to valuing ideas, asked Summers...
...report on Indian billionaire Lakshmi Mittal's hostile takeover bid for Europe's biggest steel company caused some readers to remark that the West is not ready to face competition from Asia...
...England spinner Phil Tufnell's taped send-up of Australia's Ashes campaign. Ponting said he wouldn't have minded so much had Tufnell "ever really done anything against Australia." As well as being misleading (Tufnell bowled England to victory at The Oval in 1997 with 11 wickets), the remark betrayed a troubling ?litism: only the greatest cricketers, Ponting implied, had the right to poke...
...That remark touched off an international media frenzy, and on March 15 of last year, Faculty of Arts and Sciences members voted 218-185 to pass a resolution of no confidence in Summers’ leadership...
...first big win for Canada came Saturday evening, when 5-ft. 3-in. Jennifer Heil of Spruce Grove, Alta., won the women's freestyle moguls competition, thereby refuting, for the moment anyway, Rudge's remark that Canadians tend to gag "on the big day." Under bright lights accented by the moonlit sky at Sauze d'Oulx, top-ranked Heil performed a 360 off the first jump and her trademark backflip with iron cross (skis crossed, tips down) off the second. "I've been feeling the pressure pretty much the last eight months," said Heil, 22. "The most important thing...