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...University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann ’71, her Penn predecessor Judith Rodin, who is now president of the Rockefeller Institute, Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons and Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman gathered around a coffee table on stage at the American Repertory Theatre to speak about their role as women leaders and their views on higher education...
...really important.”“Kyle sailed really well yesterday, really fast,” Knowles said. “He had some good starts all weekend.”Knowles and Simon replaced the boat of skipper Vincent Porter ’06 and crew Ruth Schlitz ’06, which helped Harvard to a third-place finish at the same event last year.In 2006, Johnson and Simon sailed together, while this year marked the return of Lynch to her regular pairing with Johnson.“I have to take...
...Ruth K. Westheimer, the sex expert, author, and radio personality who recently spoke during Harvard Women’s Week, was quick to point out the difference between abstaining from sexual activity and missing out on sexual education in her talk to students...
...cases where a fetus was deformed. The first part was true, but only because the vast majority of abortions occur in the first 13 weeks of pregnancy, when this procedure would not even be a consideration. The latter was false, as reporters who went past the spin soon learned. Ruth Padawer of the Bergen Record found that in one New Jersey clinic alone, something like 1,500 of them were being performed every year...
...what could the pro-choice crowd possibly find pleasing here? Well, for what it's worth, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote a very compelling dissent, joined by three of her liberal colleagues, Stephen Breyer, John Paul Stevens and David Souter. It's as fiery as anything turned out by conservative rabble-rouser Antonin Scalia, probably the court's best writer. She dismisses the majority's logic as "bewildering," the product of old men out of touch: "This way of thinking reflects ancient notions about women's place in the family and under the Constitution - ideas that have long since been...