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Summers said that he would “consider very seriously” the request to release a transcript of his comments, but said that he currently does not intend...
...home from Iraq. Their families are busy making plans for a welcome-home bash at the end of the month. They've booked the Blossom banquet room at the Cranberry Lodge near the unit's Wisconsin base. Buffalo wings and pizza will be the featured fare, at the soldiers' request. It will be the last chance for the reservists to celebrate their safe return together before they disperse to pick up their civilian lives...
Poussaint’s family was in attendance throughout the day, many of them circling the floor of the Westin’s American Ballroom and exchanging pleasantries with old friends and alumni. Poussaint himself could be seen posing for camera phone photos at the request of his many admirers...
...Higgins Professor of Natural Science Barbara J. Grosz, chair of the newly-formed Task Force on Women in Science, said in an interview last night that “there are no limits on what we can propose.” While Harvard currently allows junior faculty to request that their tenure clock be stopped, Grosz said her task force would consider a policy under which the tenure clock would automatically stop for junior faculty with young children unless the professor asked that it keep ticking...
High schools, meanwhile, find themselves fending off parents who expect instant responses to every e-mail; who request a change of teacher because of "poor chemistry" when the real issue is that the child is getting a poor grade; who seek out a doctor who will proclaim their child "exceptionally bright but with a learning difference" that requires extra time for testing; who insist that their child take five Advanced Placement classes, play three varsity sports, perform in the school orchestra and be in student government--and then complain that kids are stressed out because the school doesn...