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...over his January remarks on women in science made such a move politically infeasible, according to the sources. “Kirby’s ouster was put on hold indefinitely” after last spring’s controversy erupted, according to the individual close to the Corporation. Ten months later, Summers is still strongly considering asking Kirby to leave, the sources also said, although a spokesman for the president said yesterday that the dean has Summers’ support. But according to the source close to the Corporation, Summers’ view now is “let?...
GLADWELL: One of the big trends in American society is the transformation of the evangelical movement and the rise of a more mature, sophisticated, culturally open evangelical church. Ten years from now, I don't think we're going to have the kinds of arguments about religion that we have today. Even the fight over intelligent design, to me, is a harbinger of a trend, which is that the religious world is increasingly willing to put its issues on the table and discuss them in the context of the secular world. Let's argue about evolution vs. creation, using...
...that lesser forms of torture were legal, these CIA officers will not be facing charges. McCain’s ban would close such loopholes, returning the U.S. to the ethical position it had taken for five decades. According to human rights groups, the bill would give protection to some ten thousand foreign suspects.Supporters of torture often point to the “ticking bomb” scenario—in which torturing one suspect could potentially save thousands of lives—as a justifiable reason to consider torture as a last resort. But to think primarily in terms...
...institution’s most notable weaknesses. In Cambridge, I no longer wake to the chirping of birds. Their songs have been replaced by the Harvard shuttle’s boorish droning. The shuttle, like a persistent suitor, returns to its place beneath my Mather window every ten minutes from eight in the morning until four in the afternoon, offering up its garbled, biodiesel-tainted entreaties and refusing to take no for an answer. Worse than that, however, is the lumbering of the heavy machines across the way, which thunderously churn and bruise the earth in the name of construction...
...time after kickoff that the Crimson had touched the ball. Fortunately for Harvard, Columbia went three-and-out—losing one play to a fumble recovered deep in the backfield. “We had our opportunity early in the game. When you get the ball first-and-ten on the 32, at some point you’ve got to capitalize a little bit on the momentum,” Shoop said. Only two plays after Harvard went up by a touchdown, Hormann was picked off by junior safety Danny Tanner on the Harvard 45-yard line, setting...