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...called her donation a "thank-you" gift to Gilligan, who has taught at Harvard for more than 30 years and whom Fonda said made her realize the "toxic" effect of gender roles...
David A.J. Richards, a professor of law at NYU Law School who has co-taught a seminar with Gilligan for the last three years, said Gilligan became "unhappy" with her position at Harvard because she could not move freely between disciplines...
...under Reagan and Bush, has consented to lend a little of his luster to FBI Director Louis Freeh, who is struggling to dispel the taint of the FBI's worst spy scandal. As head of an inquiry into the intelligence disaster, Webster says sympathetically that decades of experience have taught him one thing: "There is no absolutely fail-safe setup that will quickly and immediately identify a good man or woman who goes sour. So our focus will be on shortening the distance from defection to detection...
...always recognize them when they belong--but we can when they don't belong." In the old days, he recalls, a librarian would report anyone asking for files that they didn't need to see. Says Webster: "We need to have some kind of electronic librarian. Machines can be taught, and I think we can build in a level of uncertainty that makes people in this game hesitate, and that will cut down on their effectiveness...
...that we just can't meet the mark." He doesn't think the SAT by itself is an adequate measure of students' potential (nor do I). But it is an important indicator of how well prepared they are for demanding college work. As a consequence, Howard (where my dad taught for 40 years) has been raising its admissions standards. The average SAT score of incoming freshmen has gone up from about 900 to 1062 in the five years that Swygert has been president. Yet Howard is attracting more applicants than ever, welcoming 1,432 freshmen this year, the largest incoming...