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...intrinsic aptitude” of women in science.Now, the woman who served as Summers’ troubleshooter is poised to become his successor.According to her friends and colleagues, Faust welcomes the challenge. Walter Licht ’67, the chair of the history department at Penn, where Faust formerly taught, said that she is ready to become Harvard’s first female leader. “She felt very strongly that a woman should finally be the head of Harvard University,” said Licht.BUILDING THE INSTITUTE When Faust became the first dean of Radcliffe...
There have been times, especially during the late 1990s tech boom, when some business folk in the area thought they had outgrown their rich uncle. But their post-2000 experience, when other tech centers floundered but northern Virginia boomed, taught them otherwise. "You had your stable base coming from government contracting, and then you had this explosion around telecom, IT and the Internet," explains former Virginia Governor Mark Warner, who was a co-founder of Nextel and later a venture capitalist. "Then, after the bubble burst, you had this unfortunate need to build a homeland-security industry...
...held accountable just because students did not make expected gains in any particular year. That’s a fair point, but one that can easily be addressed by holding teachers accountable for their performance over the course of two or three years. If every group of students taught by a particular teacher does badly for a span of three years, then something needs to be changed...
This university is its own, insular community full of people who have been taught from nursery school not to hit and to use their words. We made it to Harvard, in part, because we internalized this lesson particularly well—we use our words a lot, and we are confident that others will do the same. When one of the victims of last month’s thefts was approached by his assailants, he told them, “I don’t have time for this...
...young man whose revolutionary work I had interrupted said angrily, ''You shut up! These things belong to the old culture. They are the useless toys of the feudal emperors and the modern capitalist class and have no significance to us, the proletarian class. Our Great Leader Chairman Mao taught us, 'If we do not destroy, we cannot establish.' The old culture must be destroyed to make way for the new socialist culture.'' Pleading was not going to move the Red Guards. The time had come to try diplomacy. ''Please, Red Guards! Believe me, I'm not opposed...