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...Chaffin is a visiting scholar at Emory University and the author of Pathfinder: John Charles Fr??mont and the Course of American Empire
...began insisting that provincial Party secretaries also become the top leaders of their local parliaments. Since 2002, Hu has increased the number of provincial People's Congresses under such direct Party control from nine to 24. "The Party wanted to block the emergence of independent legislatures," says a Beijing scholar who advises People's Congresses...
...even more problematic than the viscerally anti-Summers speculation is the lack of understanding of the nature of the academic inquiry in which Summers engaged. Summers acknowledged the existence of the “innate differences” hypothesis at a conference at which scholars presented and heard research, not in a discussion of university or public policy. Society at large, and academics in particular, must respect the bounds of academic discourse—at least when the discourse is either grounded in fact to the extent possible or self-consciously speculative. When any scholar presents a legitimate academic theory...
...women should have to make this choice between being a mother and being a productive scholar in science and engineering is a societal question,” Shauman said. “We shouldn’t be willing to throw up our hands and say, ‘Women aren’t willing to make this choice...
Shauman also cited a 1999 report that found elite science departments tend to marginalize female faculty members. The report, which studied MIT, was published by a committee chaired by renowned biologist Nancy Hopkins ’64, the scholar who walked out of Summers’ speech on Friday and lambasted the president’s remarks in several newspapers earlier this week...