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Questions about American foreign policy took the bulk of the question-and-answer session that followed Summers’ remarks, although the students also addressed other topics??including Harvard’s place in the public eye and Summers’ controversial January remarks that “issues of intrinsic aptitude” may be responsible for a dearth of women scientists. Those comments sparked strong criticism from many professors and culminated in a March vote of no confidence in Summers’ leadership...
...could we have done otherwise? There is some gossip to be heard about the controversial new Parsifal production—no one could have doubted that hiring that young director would start a major uprising on part of old Wagner devotees. We move on to other topics??opera productions elsewhere, but also the issues that middle-aged people all over the world love to harp on: why aren’t everyone’s children married yet; detailed descriptions of everyone’s health; the sorry state of politics...
...It’s such an interesting book as a primary source,” says Allgor. “Many think it’s just saccharine…but it touches on a number of vital historical topics??transcendentalism, domesticity, women’s issues, slavery, and the Civil...
...Kirby or other members of the administration. We deeply respect the right of sources to decline comment when they are contacted by Crimson reporters, but would argue against the climate of secrecy being imposed from the top down. We understand the need for the administration to occasionally designate some topics??like disciplinary cases—confidential. But such measures are abused when they are applied to policy debates, as occurred this fall regarding a discussion of the University’s plans for Allston...
...frenzied reporting and editorializing of the last year or so has focused on a very limited number of topics??namely, the threat of terrorism and the embattled peoples of the Middle East. Sadly, the public has proven to be rather impressionable and skittish since those terrible days in September a year ago; other serious issues have fallen by the wayside, overlooked by the frenetic attentions of Americans...