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...while Summers said that a decade in Washington has taught him to choose his words wisely, at last week’s talk, he caused one female scholar, Nancy Hopkins ’64, to leave the conference feeling physically...
...other. For example, there’s a slight tendency for girls to have higher verbal skills than boys, but we’d be crazy to take this small difference into account in hiring English professors. The effects are so small that knowing the gender of a candidate scholar of Elizabethan theatre will tell us next to nothing about his or her achievements or potential...
...abuse. We start with the case of Professor Zheng Chengsi, one of China's top experts on the issue. Last week, while outgoing U.S. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans pressed the mainland to "forcefully confront" its piracy problem, a Chinese court awarded Zheng $6,826 in damages from publisher Beijing Scholar Digital Technology. The affront: publishing eight of Zheng's textbooks online without permission, including seven on copyright infringement...
Sharansky is not the first author in the presidential book club. Bush has also been host to, among others, Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis and Middle East scholar Bernard Lewis. These sessions undermine Bush's own anti-intellectual posture. He boasts about not reading newspapers or being worried much about the judgments of historians, most of whom, he says, "wouldn't have voted for me." But in his readings and talks with authors, he is seeking theoretical scaffolding for his actions from the pointy-headed intellectuals he often appears to disdain, rather than combing through their pages looking for ideas...
...Abbate is a splendid teacher and scholar who will bring real strength to Harvard’s studies in the arts,” University President Lawrence H. Summers said in the release...