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...last time University President Lawrence H. Summers publicly ruminated on the capabilities of the opposite sex, he ignited an international brouhaha that would eventually taint his presidency. But as the unlikely keynote speaker at a women’s leadership conference yesterday morning, Summers received a far different reception. Speaking to a predominantly female crowd gathered in a Charles Hotel conference room, Summers emphasized the “profound importance” of women’s leadership, receiving extended applause at the end of his 30-minute speech and words of praise from numerous audience members...
Last December, the Harvard Republican Club (HRC), of which I am a member, proved its unnecessary belligerence by electing a man with the subtlety of a falling brick to the post of presidency. I will not be mentioning his real name because there is no need to taint posterity—and by posterity I mean Google—with his folly forever; people deserve a second-chance, after all. But actions also have consequences, and so this is one. Let us call...
Although this position on drugs might taint him as an “incurable radical,” the truth is that Morales’ boat is testing two very different waters. He visited China with Hugo Chavez’s private plane, but he sensibly cancelled the visit to Iran and met with the American ambassador in La Paz; he talks of controlling the Santa Cruz “oligarchs” that reign over Bolivia’s wealth, but also about respecting international laws when renewing contracts with foreign investors in La Paz’s gaseous...
...cruise or didn?t want be seen. So we had to make areas where there would be no filming or post when there was filming, but 90% of the people were dying to be on it and asking to be on it. I worried that it would taint the experience and it didn?t in any way. In fact I?m so thankful that they made it because I didn?t get to experience the cruise in the way I did when I watched the documentary...
...encouraging discussions perhaps sometimes lacking in Gov sections.The two pairs of brightly colored staircases, for instance, are indicative of Cobb’s intention to create a vibrant place. The walls of each staircase are painted in energetic hues—red, yellow, and green—that then taint the incoming sunlight before it bounces off the colored surface onto the (no longer) white walls nearby. This elaboration of decorative details is, however, not present in all aspects of the interior’s design. “There are highly worked details,” said Miller...