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...think it’s a monumental step,” Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said. “These are fun moments and opportunities that have not come very often for our school and our program, so we’re proud, and we’re excited about representing Harvard in a tremendous fashion on the road down in North Carolina...
...some Wellesley students took umbrage at the prospect of nominating students from other schools—not only out of school pride, but also in defense of the transgender and transsexual communities on their campus...
...wind up here? There were two contradictory trends that emerged in the 1990s. [On the one hand,] there was the concern that girls were not getting the same treatment as boys in school, especially around math and science. Reviving Ophelia, about self-esteem in young women, was on the best-seller list for three years. And of course there was the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas drama on television, in which people saw on their screens an African-American woman's charges against Thomas utterly dismissed. That produced a huge backlash, which prompted a record number of women...
...inside the Russian government, the trend was going in the opposite direction. Medvedev and other liberals still felt trust for Obama and seemed ready to meet him halfway. But conservatives - mainly old-school apparatchiks, security chiefs and former KGB officers like Putin - began to express their doubts about the reset in relations. "It's been frustrating," the U.S. senior official tells TIME on condition of anonymity. "We came in with an aggressive reset mentality, and it was not necessarily shared by everyone in the Russian government. The Russians are overwhelmed by all the things we want to do tomorrow...
...Pope suffers in silence, Catholics in his native Germany are growing increasingly angry as revelations pile up. They were first set off by accusations from former students at a prestigious Jesuit high school in Berlin. But much of the attention has now shifted to the case of Father H, the name the German media is using for the priest who sexually abused minors in the late 1970s and was transferred to Munich in 1980, initially for treatment, but later allowed to return to full pastoral duties. The man at the helm of the Munich Archdiocese at the time of Father...