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Grosz has stood at the forefront of University efforts to encourage female graduate students and junior professors in the sciences since 1991, when the FAS Standing Committee on Women—which she chaired—warned in a high-profile report that the rise in the number of women in senior faculty positions would grind to a halt unless Harvard made a concerted effort to attract and retain female scholars...
...what else was missing in the speech? He paid homage to Democrats but didn't use the word Republican. He defended marriage without having to use the word gay and seem mean spirited. He stood up for "life", without having to use the word abortion. And he invoked a vision of a creepy Blade Runner world of selling human parts and bodies without mentioning stem cell research, which remains popular. And, of course, no mention of Osama bin Laden. Bush remains not only passionate but very smart...
Twenty percent of the Times’ assessment of each school stood in the “weighted salary” of its graduates—that is, the average salary of MBA-holders three years after graduation, with adjustments for variations between industry sectors. The salary increase from entrance into business school to three years after graduation accounted for another 20 percent of each school’s rating...
...small part of the Times’ computations included each school’s percentage of female faculty. With 22 percent, HBS had the highest proportion among the top-ranked institutions, although it stood just below average among all the schools in the ratings...
Informed of that and other rebuttals, Bradley said yesterday he stood by his reporting, which consisted of hundreds of interviews, including discussions with administrators and members of Harvard’s top governing boards...